With the recent approved review of the package crtools in Fedora I have made a feature proposal for checkpoint/restore. To test checkpoint/restore on Fedora you need to run the current development version of Fedora and install crtools using yum (yum install crtools). Until it is decided if it actually will be a Fedora 19 feature […]

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We have integrated new nodes into our cluster. All of the new nodes have a local SSD for fast temporary scratch data. In order to find which are the best options and IO scheduler I have written a script which tries a lot of combinations (80 to be precise) of file system options and IO […]

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After having successfully updated libcdio in rawhide to 0.90 and also introduced the split off libcdio-paranoia in Fedora’s development branch, I rebuilt most of on libcdio depending packages. Two packages were no longer building but their maintainers quickly fixed it. The only broken dependent package was kover. As I am still upstream of kover I […]

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