Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-23:	A good reason to use write-intent bitmaps
2013-12-21:	If you're using Linux's magic SysRq, increase the log level right away
2013-12-13:	Using cgroups to limit something's RAM consumption (a practical guide)
2013-12-07:	Things get weird with read-only NFS mounts and atime on Linux
2013-11-29:	How modern Linux software RAID arrays are assembled on boot (and otherwise)
2013-11-18:	Why booting Linux from a ZFS root filesystem with GRUB can be hard
2013-11-17:	The 10G Ethernet performance problem on Linux
2013-10-24:	How to force a disk write cache flush operation on Linux
2013-10-06:	The per-NFS-operation data for NFS mounts in `/proc/self/mountstats`
2013-10-05:	The `xprt:` data for NFS mounts in `/proc/self/mountstats`
2013-10-04:	The bytes and events data for NFS mounts in `/proc/self/mountstats`
2013-10-03:	What is in `/proc/self/mountstats` for NFS mounts: an introduction
2013-09-19:	Processes waiting for NFS IO do show in Linux `%iowait` statistics
2013-09-09:	Why the RPM source and binary package format is superior to Debian .debs
2013-09-02:	The current weak areas of ZFS on Linux
2013-08-24:	My personal view of Fedora versus Ubuntu on the desktop
2013-08-08:	My Cinnamon desktop customizations
2013-08-02:	I'm giving up on a custom laptop environment for Fedora 19
2013-07-31:	The problem with a custom laptop environment: designing it
2013-07-21:	A fun problem: monitoring randomness reduces it
2013-07-18:	Fedora 19 and the search for volume management
2013-07-15:	Systemd needs sensible, non-truncated output
2013-06-15:	I'm considering building a custom laptop environment
2013-06-10:	What the SELinux community should be doing
2013-06-09:	SELinux should have its own `errno` value
2013-06-06:	Why building RPMs for a different architecture is a hard problem
2013-06-04:	SELinux's toxic mistake
2013-05-30:	I find Systemtap oddly frustrating
2013-05-28:	How you should package local-use configuration files
2013-05-24:	Understanding how CVE-2013-1979 might be exploited
2013-05-19:	The technical effects of being an out of tree Linux kernel module
2013-05-17:	Why I'm not considering btrfs for our future fileservers just yet
2013-05-16:	Why ZFS's CDDL license matters for ZFS on Linux
2013-04-08:	Fedora 18's TexLive packaging failure
2013-04-06:	What I needed to do with Grub2 to change my boot disk
2013-03-16:	I'm giving up on upgrading my laptop from Fedora 14
2013-03-12:	MATE Desktop's failure in Fedora 18
2013-03-10:	The systemd dependency problem
2013-03-09:	Why `.rpmnew` files are evidence of packaging failures
2013-03-08:	Debian shows how to do Apache configuration right (and Fedora fumbles it)
2013-03-06:	Turning off delays on failed password authentications
2013-02-26:	How Linux servers should boot with software RAID
2013-02-12:	Some notes on Linux's `ionice`
2013-02-08:	Linux's great advantage as a Unix is its willingness to make wrenching changes
2013-01-23:	What I want to know about kernel security updates
2013-01-08:	Why we wound up using Linux for our iSCSI targets

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