Monthly Archives: January 2016

SCST dev_vdisk errors

Recently, we received reports of SCST-related error messages from one of our SAN servers: kernel: [1082754.895993] [4821]: dev_vdisk: ***ERROR***: write() returned -28 from 4096 A quick analysis showed that these errors started on a working day right after holiday season, … Continue reading

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Installing openSUSE Leap 42.1 on bcache root FS

Now that openSUSE Leap has been around for some time, I wanted to give it a try on one of our test SAN/NAS servers. One of the most basic elements of these SAN/NAS servers is using bcache to employ transparent … Continue reading

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