Author Archives: j mozdzen

slow detection of SAN LUNs

After moving our Xen cluster to new servers, we noticed a strange behavior: While the first VMs would start immediately,  later VMs (having started about 20 VMs) would not come up: The NPIV-configured LUNs couldn’t be attached in Dom0.

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Booting SLES with root file system on “late media”

Sorry for the weird title – it’s about booting a SLES server when the device for the root file system will initialize later than expected. We’ve experienced this issue with our Fiber Channel setup and raised a bug report with … Continue reading

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Brother brsane4 scanner driver for Linux updated

In a recent post, I had described a bug we encountered when accessing our brscan4-driven Brother scanner via a “saned” Linux scan server. From a comment received, the problem is not limited to the scanner we used, but probably affecting … Continue reading

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