Google: GFS & Routing Around Outages

• Google File System (GFS)
• How Google Routes Around Outages

Pulling Gnome off of RedHat

If X and Gnome are already installed on RedHat it can be tricky to remove them with yum. However, a friend of mine reports success using pirut to remove them. It warns that it is about to remove itself, but it does seem to work. Packages that are not dependencies of the X and Gnome package tree are not removed.

fscking

I've become very interested in fscking. I'm going to keep a link to various pages on fscking that I find interesting. We'll start with something friendly, like how even apples need fscking and then get into some more detail:

1. Apple Knowledgebase: Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck (TS1417)
2. Andy's Unix FAQ: The In's and Out's of Fsck - Dealing with corrupt filesystems

MySQL and SAN

http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2009/03/09/when-would-you-use-san-with-mysql/