http://marti.dimerge.net/blog you can't be as good as God, but you can be close! Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:16:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It is exacly one year after first post... one year of new challenges and experience. So... maybe some statistics. My blog has 48195 visits (without bots)... and 33159 unique. Thanks for all your comments (23), and to RSS readers (12). Best regards for all, And see you in the future :)... near I hope ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/20/one-year I have to migrate from firebird 1.5 to 2.0. And of course there was a databases migration. The security.fdb as it is said in /opt/firebird/upgrade/security_database.txt is not compatibile: You can't use pre-2.0 security database in firebird 2.0 or higher directly. If you try to put old security.fdb into firebird's new home directory ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/14/convert-securityfdb-to-security2fdb-in-firebird Yesterday I participated Hitachi Storage training, which was about new AMS 2500 storage and its new active-active controller. A few white papers can be found below. I attach two additional links. One which has some interesting info about disk failures (from FAST'07: 5th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies) ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/14/worn-write-once-read-never-new-trend-in-hard-disk-production When I tried to update my transmission (1.34) bittorent client to newest version 1.40 at centos 5 I got a configure error: Requested 'libcurl >= 7.16.3' but version of libcurl is 7.15.5 and it is true... libcurl in centos 5 is now 7.15.5 and probably will not be updated in a short ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/11/transmission-140-at-centos-5-libcurl-problem After starting windows xp pro, I got: Duplicate name exists. Solution: If changing name for sth random (for example 376huf2e) does not help, check if the workgroup name is not same as one of computers in your network. For me - it solved the problem. http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/10/duplicate-name-exists Today I was looking for some performace tests at linux filesystems, and I found some pages, where raid 10 at linux has been done by merging two raid 1 into raid 0, or simmilar... Maybe some of you does not know, that linux mdadm support raid10, as you can see below: # ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/11/07/software-raid-10-at-linux One of my business partners has something like this in his disclaimer: Messages sent to and from CompanyName may be monitored to ensure compliance with internal policies and to protect our business. Emails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free. Anyone who communicates with us by email ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/10/22/e-mail-delivery-cant-be-guaranteed :) best regards http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/10/10/have-a-good-weekend-with-linux-kernel-matrix I do not like to read whole documentation to get the default password, it is wasting of time, so I use google to do it. But it was rather hard do find the default password for endian firewall (Yes, I've just installed it for testing purposes). So: login: root password: endian :) http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/09/25/endian-firewall-community-default-root-password Sometimes you can meet the situation when you lost a drive by accident from your mdadm configuration, as you can see below, two of my arrays has lost a drive: # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid1] [raid0] md3 : active raid1 sdc2[0] hde2[1] 195358336 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : ... http://marti.dimerge.net/blog/2008/09/23/re-add-disk-to-mdadm-array