My main desktop/server machine (running Debian sid) at home has been running XFS on mdadm raid-1 on a pair of SSDs for the last few years. A few days ago, one of the SSDs died. I’ve been planning to switch to ZFS as the root filesystem for a while now, so instead of just replacing the failed drive, I took the opportunity to convert it. NOTE: at this point in time, ZFS On Linux does NOT support TRIM for either …
It’s Alive! The day before yesterday (at Infoxchange, a non-profit whose mission is “Technology for Social Justice”, where I do a few days/week of volunteer systems & dev work), I had to build a docker container based on an ancient wheezy image. It built fine, and I got on with working with it. Yesterday, I tried to get it built on my docker machine here at home so I could keep working on it, but the damn thing just wouldn’t …
I wrote my first Mojolicious web app yesterday, a cloud-init meta-data server to enable running pre-built VM images (e.g. as provided by debian, ubuntu, etc) without having to install and manage a complete, full-featured cloud environment like openstack. I hacked up something similar several years ago when I was regularly building VM images at home for openstack at work, with just plain-text files served by apache, but that had pretty-much everything hard-coded. fakecloud does a lot more and allows per-VM …
One line review: Boys Own Dale Carnegie Post-Apocalyptic Adventures with casual racism and misogyny. That tells you everything you need to know about this book. I wasn’t expecting much from it, but it was much worse than I anticipated. I’m about half-way through it at the moment, and can’t decide whether to just give up in disgust or keep reading in horrified fascination to see if it gets even worse (which is all that’s kept me going with it so …
I had to replace a motherboard and CPU a few days ago (bought an Asus M5A97 R2.0), and wanted to get lm-sensors working properly on it. Got it working eventually, which was harder than it should have been because the lm-sensors site is MIA, seems to have been rm -rf -ed. For anyone else with this motherboard, the config is included below. This inspired me to fix the config for my Asus Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. Also included below. To install, …