'The wolf that to Ironwood follows the glittering god'

Having finally gotten skoll up and running again I'm planning on moving this site to it sometime within the week.  That is, after I've done a few stress tests to make sure it's not going to randomly freeze on me again.  I do believe that was just badblocks though, and I think I've solved that problem.

Speaking of bad blocks, Sun machines are rather annoying to run a full write test (i.e. the destructive one) on.  When you partition the harddrive fdisk creates an empty Sun disklabel and sticks it at the start of the first partition – which is why you can't have a swap partition at the start of the drive.

Of course doing the full bad block test with badblocks destroys this disk label, thereby making the drive unbootable.  Which means, as I discovered after much frustration, that what you have to do is run fdisk and then run badblocks making sure to output to a file in a safe location (i.e. a RAM disk).  You then have to run fdisk again so as to create a new disk label and finally run mke2fs, passing it the badblocks file when you do so.  It's a pain in the ass to say the least.

Either way, it's running again so don't be surprised if the site is unreachable for a little while when I do the transfer.

Update: I just realised that I'll either have to break down and install PHP or I'm going to have to do some serious editting to get yasis working properly.