Archive for January, 2007

Dreaming in Code (2007-1-22)

From Joel on Software, referring to Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code: [It’s] a great look at one particular type of software project: the kind that ends up spinning and spinning its wheels without really going anywhere because the vision was too grand and the details were a little short. Near as I can tell, Chandler’s [...]

Recovering a Linux RAID disk (2007-1-4)

I had a server with a flaky drive sneak up on me today.  After the server took a break (requiring a hard reboot), I found this in the dmesg report: md: md3: raid array is not clean — starting background reconstructionmd: RAID level 1 does not need chunksize! Continuing anyway.md3: max total readahead window set [...]