On Friday, 17 May 2019 06:48:28 BST Adam Carter wrote:
> > > The classic one is where OPS haven't noticed that disks in a RAID array
> >
> > have died years ago...
> >
> > This really happened?
>
> Yeah. Spent huge money on NMSes but then didn't spend the relatively small
> amount on thorough in
Adam Carter wrote:
>
> something even worse. Since rebooting is when those tend to
> fail/break/whatever, it is yet another reason I avoid rebooting.
>
>
> I take the opposite approach. If I update the kernel and reboot often,
> I see the following benefits;
> - Each increment in version
> Yep, and not just to Adam. I had to ask support twice to check their
> array
> because performance was degraded, but they preferred to blame (my) network
> for
> it. So much for keeping an eye on monitoring kit for their storage.
>
>
Systems guys blame the network, network guys blame the firewa
On Friday, 17 May 2019 09:43:46 BST Dale wrote:
> My problems with init thingys date all the way back to to the Mandrake
> 9.1 days when I first used Linux.
I was never a Mandrake user, but also avoided using an initrd unless it came
with a binary distro - at which point I would also expect it t
On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:28 AM Mick wrote:
>
> Count yourself lucky. You could have discovered your disk wouldn't spin up
> again, your PSU packed up, or even the MoBo chipset decided to retire from
> active service. Eventually, any of these hardware problems would manifest
> themselves, but a
Recently I found that new kernels were not booting for me, because they could
not assemble the LVM partition that I use for the root filesystem.
Booting back to my old kernel still worked.
I have tracked this back to the lvm2 version.
After booting with the old kernel, I ran lvm and tried the '
Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 6:28 AM Mick wrote:
>> Count yourself lucky. You could have discovered your disk wouldn't spin up
>> again, your PSU packed up, or even the MoBo chipset decided to retire from
>> active service. Eventually, any of these hardware problems would manife
Mick wrote:
> On Friday, 17 May 2019 09:43:46 BST Dale wrote:
>
>> My problems with init thingys date all the way back to to the Mandrake
>> 9.1 days when I first used Linux.
> I was never a Mandrake user, but also avoided using an initrd unless it came
> with a binary distro - at which point I wo
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 01:53:45PM -0500, Dale wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > […]
> > If your system is on, how is it going to replace vulnerable kernels
> > with patched ones?
> […]
>
> While I want to keep the bad CPU code from being used, they first have
> to get past other things. My D
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