Posts Tagged ‘ linux ’

Hardware design for high density storage pod

September 9, 2009
By gary

These guys at ‘backblaze’ claim to be able to provide 67TB for $7,867 based on 45 SATA drives, RAID6 (Linux) and JFS. The hardware design which is presented in the blog as a how-to uses vertically stacked drives and looks very much like the Sun ‘Thumper’ (X4500) device which I first saw...
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List binary objects by size.

September 2, 2009
By gary

Sometimes you will want to know what a binary file contains (functions, arrays, objects) etc. The ‘nm’ command will do that for you, and the following 1-liner will sort the output by size. I use this to determine why some source compiled on Solaris is larger than when compiled in linux. e.g. nm...
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Verifying binaries in linux.

September 3, 2008
By gary

Recently we had an issue on some linux clients that would mysteriously fail to run SFS benchmarks. On closer inspection we found that the binary ‘cpp’ would exit with SIGSEGV. # cpp cc1: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See for instructions. For some reason that I didn’t...
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