grifferz

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by grifferz 2y ago
> one of the Linux developers reverse engineered the protocol, breaking the licensing terms Tridge never accepted the license terms of BitKeeper and re-implemented client libraries only by observing black box behaviour of the server, so
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by grifferz 6y ago
Ah okay. It seems that my re-adds were failing on arrays that don't have a bitmap. I was testing it on small arrays that don't get a bitmap by default.
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by grifferz 6y ago
But why do you repartition it? Doesn't putting the exact same partition table on a device that already has a partition table result in no actual changes?
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by grifferz 6y ago
Init scripts in /etc/init.d/ are not used when there is a systemd unit of the same name. Other than being in your filesystem they have zero effect on you.
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by grifferz 6y ago
> Maybe try harder with the negotiating first. If you read the bug report there is a period of about 7 weeks where they are asking the maintainer why it was removed, offering to fix it, pointing out that it works fine and can just be put
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by grifferz 6y ago
> is Debian the sole developer of this one? The init script is specific to Debian. I don't know what network-manager's stance is on init system support or even if they have one. I wasn't able to find one in a quick search.
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by grifferz 6y ago
I submitted this as being interesting because I feel it is a turning point in Debian's long init wars. The most recent Debian General Resolution on init support said something like "we chose systemd but compatibility with other in
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Debian network-manager: Please restore removed init script(bugs.debian.org)
66 points by grifferz 6y ago|45 comments
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by grifferz 6y ago
As the article tries to state, the problem isn't that bad blocks can happen. The problems with md's bad blocks log are: - Most of the time the entries don't correspond to actual bad blocks. - It's buggy because it copies
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by grifferz 6y ago
To remove the BBL from the devices that make up the array that the root filesystem is on you would need to boot into a rescue environment and assemble it there. While the debian-installer does provide the rescue environment that you need to
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by grifferz 6y ago
By choosing "expert" mode you can choose between any of the partition types (much more besides mbr and gpt). In standard mode it will pick mbr if none of your devices are bigger than the mbr partition limit (2TB?) otherwise it wil
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by grifferz 6y ago
It's on new devices in an installer context for a RAID-1 as the text you quote describes, so yes I do know what I'm doing. But fair enough, it might give other people bad ideas, so I'll remove it from the examples.
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by grifferz 6y ago
Interesting. What's the sfdisk for? Is that why my attempts to use --re-add aren't working? I also tried "mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1" to make mdadm forget that was ever an array member, but that didn&#x2
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by grifferz 6y ago
Hi, article author here. That's interesting! I'd possibly never noticed this because my serial console session has always been itself inside screen (now tmux with screen bindings), so doing that would only ever have sent me to my
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by grifferz 6y ago
Hi, article author here. I just tried that out on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine but it didn't work: $ sudo mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 --re-add /dev/sdb1 --update=no-bbl
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“A long time coming” – ARM as personal computing platform(station.eciton.net)
2 points by grifferz 8y ago|0 comments
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by grifferz 8y ago
Author here. I'm sure you're right. I pretty certain I could have charged them much much more and they'd still have accepted it. In conversation with the software eng it was implied that they intended to send someone on site
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by grifferz 8y ago
I'm wondering exactly how far this promise of support will go. It's no secret (although it still surprises some) that only software in the "main" suite is supported by LTS, so all the useful stuff in "universe"
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by grifferz 10y ago
Mark Shuttleworth is referring to the process to redistribute something called "Ubuntu". The email from Mark seems extremely clear that Canonical's position is that there is no way to distribute a derivative of Ubuntu witho
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by grifferz 10y ago
put in the elbow-grease yourself to remove the trademarks Mark Shuttleworth has made it clear that in Canonical's opinion there is nothing you can do that would let you skip the step of asking their permission on a case by case basis
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by grifferz 10y ago
But Canonical refuses to clarify what you would have to remove in order to make Ubuntu redistributable without asking their permission. In fact, going further, Mark Shuttleworth has plainly stated that there is no process or tool which can
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by grifferz 10y ago
I interviewed for a non-customer-facing ops position at Rackspace UK in 2006 and one stage was them handing me a pack of coloured pencils and blank paper and telling me to draw what my idea of "fanatical support" looked like.
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by grifferz 11y ago
Several copyright holders have assigned their copyright to SFC, so SFC can act on their behalf. There is also at least one copyright holder that is unhappy about Canonical distributing ZFS with the kernel: https://twitter.com&#x2
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Tiny-initrd – A minimalistic initrd implementation(github.com)
2 points by grifferz 11y ago|0 comments
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by grifferz 11y ago
Creating RAID devices and rebooting twice (once to start using the RAID device, and again to stop using it afterwards) seems excessive here. I do this sort of thing with a script very much like lvmsync: http://theshed.hezmatt.org
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by grifferz 12y ago
If you're running a syslogd then the logs also get stored there, so you can continue to use the tools you are familiar with if that is more important to you than possibly considering different tools that may work better.
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by grifferz 12y ago
Probably not software like Apache and Postgres, no. But when systemd is the default init system on almost every Linux distribution, new software will have the systemd integration written first and tested most.
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by grifferz 12y ago
I'm in a similar position with regard to those (or any) desktop features not being relevant for most of the systems I administer. I'm kind of irritated about having to learn a whole set of new things. I do recognise that there are
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by grifferz 12y ago
This I can't wrap my head around, why does Gnome for example need systemd? Here's a good summary of the issue: http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/de... A bad thing about systemd
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by grifferz 12y ago
forking is a more civilised approach than bullying and threatening the author. Absolutely, in that almost anything is. :) But specifically, at this point I'd really welcome the anti-systemd ranters to just do some work that makes the

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