Wandering Thoughts archives

2012-12-27:	Why I somewhat irrationally have a distrust of ZFS on Linux
2012-12-18:	Why I'm still using VMware
2012-12-10:	Things that systemd gets right
2012-11-30:	All kernel messages should be usefully ratelimited. No exceptions.
2012-11-18:	Linux is less divergent than commercial Unixes used to be
2012-11-13:	The problem with SELinux (still)
2012-11-11:	Explaining an RPM oddity
2012-10-11:	Controlling Linux TCP socket send buffer sizes
2012-10-05:	Notes on Linux's blktrace
2012-09-23:	How we handle Ubuntu LTS versions
2012-09-13:	Why you need mass package rebuilds in some circumstances
2012-09-12:	The core problem with developers doing their own packaging
2012-09-09:	The core difference between Debian source packages and RPMs
2012-08-23:	Illustrating the Ubuntu clown car, AccountsService edition
2012-08-21:	Another problem with how Debian builds from source packages
2012-08-19:	Why I don't like the Debian source package format
2012-08-11:	How not to write kernel messages
2012-08-09:	Ubuntu 12.04 and symbolic links in world-writeable sticky-bitted directories
2012-08-08:	Linux ps's problem with login names
2012-07-27:	What 32-bit x86 Linux's odd 896 MB kernel memory boundary is about
2012-07-22:	The history of booting Linux with software RAID A sleazy trick to capture debugging output from an initramfs
2012-07-20:	Ubuntu 12.04 can't reliably boot with software RAID (and why)
2012-07-16:	Getting an Ubuntu 12.04 machine to give you boot messages
2012-07-06:	Exploring an ARP mystery: a little Linux surprise
2012-06-22:	How the Linux kernel command line is processed (more or less)
2012-06-17:	Why our server had its page allocation failure
2012-06-16:	Decoding the Linux kernel's page allocation failure messages
2012-06-15:	How the Linux kernel divides up your RAM
2012-06-07:	My experience doing a Fedora 17 upgrade with yum: it worked fine
2012-06-06:	A feature that Linux installers should have: restoring your backups
2012-06-01:	Some things that strike me about Linux and UEFI secure booting
2012-05-28:	How to do a very cautious LVM storage migration
2012-05-10:	All your servers should have Linux's magic SysRq enabled
2012-05-07:	Third party Linux kernel modules should build against non-running kernels
2012-04-22:	I may be wrong about my simple answer being the right one
2012-04-20:	Sometimes the simple answers are the right ones (a lesson from bash)
2012-04-17:	`ls -l` should show the presence of Linux capabilities
2012-04-05:	Why I hate having `/tmp` as a tmpfs
2012-03-08:	What I have to run for my custom environment on Fedora 16
2012-03-07:	The hard part of custom environments on Fedora (or any Linux)
2012-02-28:	In place migration to Linux software RAID
2012-02-15:	The temptation of LVM mirroring
2012-02-08:	Choosing the superblock format for Linux's software RAID
2012-01-31:	The solution to the modern X font handling mystery
2012-01-26:	The drawback of modern X font handling gets mysterious
2012-01-16:	What you can find out about the memory usage of your Linux programs
2012-01-13:	Notes on what Linux's `/proc/<pid>/smaps` fields mean
2012-01-11:	A Yum plugin I would like: using a local DVD as a repo source How to use `systemd` to just run some stuff on boot
2012-01-05:	Nailing down RPM epoch numbers

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