Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-12-29:	How I have partitioning et al set up for ZFS On Linux
2014-12-27:	My ZFS On Linux memory problem: competition from the page cache
2014-12-26:	My experience with ZFS on Linux: it's worked pretty well for me
2014-12-12:	The bad side of systemd: two recent systemd failures
2014-12-10:	What good kernel messages should be about and be like
2014-12-07:	How we install Ubuntu machines here
2014-11-28:	How I made IPSec IKE work for a point to point GRE tunnel on Fedora 20
2014-11-26:	Using iptables to block traffic that's not protected by IPSec
2014-11-25:	My Linux IPSec/VPN setup and requirements
2014-11-03:	Hassles with getting our NFS mount authentication working on Linux What I'm worried about with retina displays on Linux
2014-10-29:	Quick notes on the Linux iptables 'ipset' extension
2014-10-16:	Don't use `dd` as a quick version of disk mirroring
2014-10-10:	Where your memory can be going with ZFS on Linux
2014-10-09:	How `/proc/slabinfo` is not quite telling you what it looks like
2014-10-03:	Why people are almost never going to be reporting bugs upstream
2014-10-02:	The problem with making bug reports about CentOS bugs
2014-09-30:	NetworkManager and network device races
2014-09-24:	One thing I've come to dislike about systemd
2014-09-18:	Ubuntu's packaging failure with `mcelog` in 14.04
2014-09-07:	Systemd's fate will be decided by whether or not it works The kernel should not generate messages at the behest of the Internet
2014-08-30:	How to change your dm-cache write mode on the fly in Linux
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:	What I want out of a Linux SSD disk cache layer
2014-07-31:	The temptation to rebuild my office machine with its data in ZFS on Linux
2014-07-23:	One of SELinux's important limits
2014-07-14:	Unmounting recoverable stale NFS mounts on Linux
2014-07-13:	Early impressions of CentOS 7
2014-07-11:	You want to turn console blanking off on your Linux servers
2014-07-02:	Bash is letting locales destroy shell scripting (at least on Linux)
2014-06-30:	Comparing RPM versions in the shell
2014-06-14:	I'm not very impressed with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS so far
2014-06-10:	An irritating and interesting `su` change from Ubuntu 12.04 to 14.04
2014-05-19:	Why desktop Linuxes want you to reboot after updates
2014-05-16:	Some notes from migrating towards encrypted SSH keys
2014-05-07:	How I use Unbound on Fedora 20 to deal with the VPN DNS issue
2014-04-16:	Where I feel that btrfs went wrong
2014-04-11:	What sort of kernel command line arguments Fedora 20's dracut seems to want
2014-04-05:	An important additional step when shifting software RAID mirrors around
2014-04-03:	Shifting a software RAID mirror from disk to disk in modern Linux
2014-03-28:	Recovering from a drive failure on Fedora 20 with LVM on software RAID
2014-03-20:	Killing (almost) all processes on Linux is not recoverable
2014-03-07:	Coming to terms with D-Bus
2014-02-26:	PCI slot based device names are not necessarily stable
2014-02-19:	Some rough things about the naming of SAS drives on Linux
2014-02-14:	'Broken by design: systemd' is itself kind of broken
2014-02-11:	Why systemd is winning the init wars and other things aren't
2014-02-09:	Why I want a solid ZFS implementation on Linux
2014-01-31:	Linux has at least two ways that disks can die
2014-01-27:	Things that affect how much support you get from a Linux distribution
2014-01-16:	Debian does not have long term support
2014-01-15:	SELinux fails again (Fedora 20 edition)
2014-01-13:	Sadly, we're moving away from Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2014-01-11:	Why I am not enthused about Red Hat Enterprise 6
2014-01-08:	The good and bad of Linux's NetworkManager

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