Category Archives: lvm

Linus on Instantiation and Armadaification

Posted on August 9, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I feel a sense of pride when I think that I was involved in the development and maintenance of what was probably the first piece of software accepted into Debian which then had and still has direct up-stream support from … Continue reading →

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The blog was down yesterday

Posted on July 26, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

The brief outage was due to a scheduled move of the servers to a separate rack and subnet dedicated to our work with the Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity (ciac) at the University of Washington Bothell (uwb), and a11y.com … Continue reading →

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New whiteboarding

Posted on July 13, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I should also sketch out the physical and virtual circuits at and between each PoP as well as the vast array of Virtual Machines provisioned on the hypervisors.

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Ohai! It looks like I’m back online!

Posted on May 28, 2012 by C.J. Adams-Collier

I’m working on my disk array today. The plan is to take the data off of a 6-disk RAID-6 and put it onto three 4-disk RAID-4s.

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A sonnet for kpartx

Posted on June 7, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

yeah, I don’t have one, but someone should write one.

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Building libvirt on CentOS5 (incomplete)

Posted on May 27, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Much thanks to Brett for the pointers on rpm-fu. http://grantmcwilliams.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=229: $ sudo yum install \ xen-devel \ xhtml1-dtds \ hal-devel \ libpcap-devel \ cyrus-sasl-devel \ parted-devel \ numactl-devel \ avahi-devel \ slang-devel \ libvolume_id-devel \ openldap-devel # device-mapper-devel \ # … Continue reading →

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AoE root for KVM guests

Posted on January 16, 2010 by C.J. Adams-Collier

Intro So. I’m trying to get familiar with libvirt and friends. To this end, I’ve set up a Lucid virtual machine booting from PXE into an initrd environment which does a pivot_root to an AoE block device. The #virt channel … Continue reading →

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Sorry for the downtime

Posted on July 15, 2009 by C.J. Adams-Collier

One of my servers (and co-incidentally, the one on which this blog is hosted) was down for the last week. I ran out of space on / and created a new lv to store the contents of /usr. I named … Continue reading →

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