“No data available” Error in GlusterFS Brick Log

Recently I was poring over my GlusterFS brick logs trying to troubleshoot a problem with self healing and I saw some (6,000+!) errors which alarmed me: [2013-11-22 09:21:51.138732] E [posix.c:2668:posix_getxattr] 0-homes-posix: getxattr failed on /mnt/gfs/wingu0/sda1/homes/yajamma/qdd_programs/qdd_files/qdd3_beta/MS_extract.pl: system.posix_acl_access (No data available) It turns out this error isn’t an error after all, and there’s a patch merged upstream […]

Disabling AES-NI on Linux OpenSSL

Ever since the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture, Intel CPUs have been coming with hardware-accelerated AES support (aka “AES-NI”, new instructions). I figured it would be interesting see a comparison between AES with and without the hardware acceleration on my Intel Core i5-3317U CPU (Ivy Bridge) on Arch Linux. According to a post on the OpenSSL Users […]