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by lscotte 9y ago
Actually, both Linux and BSD are used - BSD on OpenConnect cache appliances, but Linux for the entire backend running in AWS.
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by lscotte 9y ago
Right, who is to say that, including yourself. :-)
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by lscotte 9y ago
It's quite excellent for the root drive, you just have to install via debootstrap. I personally do this on all my 1/2 dozen boxes (Straight Debian usually, but some Ubuntu). I've also written up how to build an AWS AMI this w
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by lscotte 9y ago
It's well worth educating yourself about eBPF, how it's functionality provided in the kernel (not systemd), but has only fully landed in the kernel recently. Hence, this timing makes perfect sense once you understand it.
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by lscotte 9y ago
I completely agree. I've worked with many good and bad programmers, both men and women, and it was usually only junior programmers and the bad ones that could not do their work without being 'collaborative' with others. Gende
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by lscotte 9y ago
There's another issue with this statement: Steve Jobs was never a hacker/programmer, he was a sales/product/evangelist weanie.
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by lscotte 9y ago
In the US, this is the Sea Scouts. Almost nobody knows about them, but anyplace near big water likely has several ships (same as a troop). It's a great program, we were involved when my son was a teenager - they (group of teenagers) li
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by lscotte 9y ago
People not familiar with X reading the above (which is correct) might miss that client/server is reversed from the way most people think about it. For X, the server is the system where the display/keyboard/UI is physically at
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by lscotte 9y ago
That's why I use a tiling wm (i3). All windows are always on top.
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by lscotte 9y ago
I do the same thing, and it does work actually. Sure, I miss the first call, but when they leave a message I then know who it is and call back. If they don't bother to leave a message, then I know the call wasn't important. A mess
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by lscotte 9y ago
You actually don't need a separate /boot - recent grub versions know what to do. You do need a small EF02 partition (I make mine 4096 sectors), and then the rest of the disk as a BF02 partition. I wrote this up for an AWS AMI, but
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by lscotte 9y ago
Actually, I do use the terminal to install it. Boot off a liveusb, switch vty, and go.
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by lscotte 9y ago
Android Auto and it's ilk are the future here. This is a neat hack, but having everything integrated into the head unit is great. We have two Kia's with this setup - it's early, limited, and has bugs, but is just awesome. Voi
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by lscotte 9y ago
ZFS root absolutely is supported on Ubuntu and Debian. Every Debian system I've built in the past year or so have been 100% ZFS (around 6 physical systems, but I've also built AWS AMIs this way). You have to install via debootstra
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by lscotte 9y ago
> Linux desktops are not terribly stable and something always crashes sooner or later Simply not true, my Linux desktops have an uptime (system and desktop processes) of weeks to months. I've never seen a single Linux distro "s
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by lscotte 9y ago
Thirded! I've been building out all my Debian boxes with ZFS root (and everywhere) for a year or more. Not only does this require installing via debootstrap, but there are some subtle things that have to be done just so or the system w
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by lscotte 9y ago
I actually found the culture deck refreshing and attractive and a big part of why I joined Netflix. There's nothing ruthless about getting rid of people who aren't doing their jobs.
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by lscotte 10y ago
Well, I'd argue just use base debian. All the same benefits, none of Mint's security issues.
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by lscotte 10y ago
I'll be curious to hear what you come up with. You should be able to create the image file locally and then shove it into S3, and use AWS just for dd'ing it to EBS.
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by lscotte 10y ago
I definitely have thoughts about automating the process :-) - we certainly plan on getting the whole process into an automated, repeatable build.
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by lscotte 10y ago
Yep, it's empty when the target was created/installed. It's something happening early at boot time, but I haven't diagnosed exactly what's going on. And now that I think about it, I've seen the same thing on lo
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by lscotte 10y ago
I haven't tested it with /boot in ZFS, but I have a laptop that has an EXT /boot partition and a LUKS partition with ZFS for everything else (/, /home, etc). It works just fine - and I've never noticed any perf
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by lscotte 10y ago
Shouldn't, perhaps, but we definitely have to (and are running with systemd)! I have not made any effort to understand what is logging early - there's not much that should happen prior to ZFS mounting everything.
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by lscotte 10y ago
Yes, we've run into 2 or 3 ZFS bugs that I can think of that were resolved in a timely fashion (released within a few weeks if I recall) by Canonical working with Debian and zfsonlinux maintainers (and subsequently fixed in both Ubuntu
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by lscotte 10y ago
I can (I'm the author). The partitions are aligned to 2048 sectors (4096 is evenly divisible by 2048). But also note the first usable sector is 2048, not 0 - so the first partition, although we tell sgdisk to start at 0, actually is fr
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by lscotte 10y ago
The keyword is definitely "ideally" :-) With a cloud provider like AWS, storage is always virtualized - so we've always got that working against us. I see ZFS in AWS more about flexibility than data integrity, although having
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by lscotte 10y ago
It's maturing rapidly and has proven to be very stable so far. We're not using it by default everywhere, at least not yet, and building out an AMI that uses ZFS for the rootfs is still a bit of a research project - but we have bee
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ZFS Root Filesystem on AWS(scotte.org)
174 points by lscotte 10y ago|106 comments
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Be Careful with Apache mod_headers(scotte.org)
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by lscotte 12y ago
See http://pcp.io/docs/installation.html#deb or direct link at ftp://ftp.pcp.io/projects/pcp/download/deb/ - but I only see packages for i386 arch, so you may have to compile from sou

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