Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-08-31:	We don't believe in DHCP for (our) servers The downside of expanding your storage through bigger disks
2014-08-30:	How to change your dm-cache write mode on the fly in Linux
2014-08-29:	A hazard of using synthetic data in tests, illustrated by me
2014-08-27:	One reason why we have to do a major storage migration The difference between Linux and FreeBSD boosters for me
2014-08-26:	Why I don't like HTTP as a frontend to backend transport mechanism
2014-08-24:	10G Ethernet is a sea change for my assumptions My spam is (mostly) boring
2014-08-23:	Some notes on Python packaging stuff that wasn't obvious to me
2014-08-22:	Where DTrace aggregates are handled for printing et al
2014-08-21:	How data flows around on the client during an Amanda backup
2014-08-20:	Explicit error checking and the broad exception catching problem
2014-08-18:	An example of a subtle over-broad `try` in Python The potential issue with Go's strings
2014-08-17:	The challenges of diagnosing slow backups
2014-08-15:	Caches should be safe by default A consequence of NFS locking and unlocking not necessarily being fast
2014-08-13:	Bind mounts with systemd and non-`fstab` filesystems How you create a systemd .mount file for bind mounts
2014-08-11:	Copying GPT partition tables from disk to disk
2014-08-10:	The problem with self-contained 'application bundle' style packaging What I want out of a Linux SSD disk cache layer
2014-08-09:	Intel has screwed up their DC S3500 SSDs
2014-08-08:	Hardware can be weird, Intel 10G-T X540-AT2 edition
2014-08-06:	A peculiarity: I'm almost never logged in to websites
2014-08-05:	Why LinkedIn's 'you must join to unsubscribe' is evil Another piece of my environment: running commands on multiple machines
2014-08-04:	Why our new SAN environment is separate from our old SAN environment
2014-08-03:	Our second generation ZFS fileservers and their setup
2014-08-02:	The benchmarking problems with potentially too-smart SSDs

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