Racker Hacker Words of wisdom from a server administrator

Although the idea of putting something from Microsoft on a Linux box might sound awful at first, you may find a reason to use Microsoft TrueType fonts on a Linux server. If you’re using GD to render an image, these fonts may come in handy.
If you have an RPM-based linux distribution, you can use [...]

I found a server last week that was having severe issues with disk I/O to the point where most operations were taking many minutes to complete. The server wasn’t under much load, but a quick run of dmesg threw quite a bit of these lines out onto the screen:
EXT3-fs warning (device sda5): ext3_dx_add_entry: [...]