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3:04pm, Friday 5 December 2008

...or, why you shouldn't put a database on an NFS filesystem:

somesrv1b:/nfs/somedb/[...]/data/base/1# ls -l 2669    
-rw-------  1 foo bar 40960 Oct 11  2007 2669
somesrv1b:/nfs/somedb/[...]/data/base/1# ls -l 2669*
-rw-------  1 foo bar 40960 Oct 11  2007 2669
-rw-------  1 foo bar 40960 Oct 11  2007 2669

This is, understandably, causing said database some confusion...

Detritus

4:59pm, Tuesday 18 November 2008

Bleh, look what I found...

somehost:~# mailq
1935d  1.5K 19jALB-0000Co-00 <> *** frozen ***
          root@somehost

somehost:~# exim -Mvl 19jALB-0000Co-00
2003-08-03 05:19:29 directing failed for root@somehost: unknown local-part "root" in domain "somehost"
*** Frozen (delivery error message)

Think I might leave it there and see if it fossilizes...