Restarting while expanding a RAID can get your server to get stuck at boot 3

Restarting while expanding a RAID can get your server to get stuck at boot
The ability to do an online RAID capacity expansion is something we had for some time. Still, every time I do this I feel like I am doing something amazing and state-of-the-art. The idea that you can expand an existing volume without losing any data and without downtime is almost magical and requires some clever ...

XSA-108 hitting AWS EC2 makes me speculate

XSA-108 hitting AWS EC2 makes me speculate
You might have heard of the massive September EC2 virtual machine reboot on the Amazon Web Services cloud. Right away it was speculated that this is due to a security bug in Xen, the hypervisor platform used by EC2. On October 1st, the embargo was lifted and the suspicions were confirmed. The bug, XSA-108, can ...