Tag Archives: linux

Apache Directory Indexing

Sometimes a problem persists long enough—is an irritant long enough—that I’ll burn an entire Sunday morning simply out of spite. Today’s irrational time-waste went to solving “Directory index forbidden by Options directive.”

[marmaduke ~] $ cat /var/log/httpd/error_log \
| grep ‘\[error\]‘ \
| head -1
[Sun Dec 06 09:25:05 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.29]↩
Directory index forbidden by Options [...]

Software RAID 10

I’ve been putting off building the software RAID10 on marmaduke. Today, I put it off no longer.
The server marmaduke has six storage devices (2 IDE and 4 SATA)

$ ls -1 /dev/hd?
/dev/hde
/dev/hdf

$ ls -1 /dev/sd?
/dev/sda
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdc
/dev/sdd

The CDROM is attached as /dev/hde and a 300GB HDD as /dev/hdf on which I’ve installed CentOS 5.2. The four SATA drives [...]

RAID 01 vs. RAID 10

I just finished building a four-drive software RAID10 on marmaduke and wanted to jot down my thoughts on RAID failure. In particular, I read a number of postings on the difference between RAID 01 and RAID 10. None of them satisfactory described the differences and how those differences changed when adding more drives.
Marmaduke only has [...]