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Month: October 2014

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

October 27, 2014October 27, 2014 by Arik Yavilevich

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 … Read more

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XSA-108 hitting AWS EC2 makes me speculate

October 26, 2014October 24, 2014 by Arik Yavilevich

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 … Read more

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