ZFS on root is back in the Ubuntu installer but there’s a better way to do it, next-generation hard drives are proving to be reliable but prices are going up thanks to storage-hungry AI, why getting started with ZFS is really easy, and the best filesystem for a single SSD (take a guess).
Ah, the sweet smell of a production Linux container image… generously seasoned with sshd and a whole host of unwanted services you definitely didn't need. If only my "if" statements were as reliable as my morning coffee. Lmao. #linux#devops#sysadmin#life
This morning, a colleague (a sysadmin who works exclusively on Red Hat) needed to quickly create a VM for a reverse proxy. Among the requirements:
Minimal, only for nginx
Root file system on btrfs (I don't know why, but it's their internal policy)
Be online ASAP
I swiftly installed Alpine Linux for them. With just two commands, I set up the root on btrfs and got the setup running. Within a minute, the VM was up; in ten seconds, nginx was installed, and within two minutes, it was configured.
They were amazed by the speed and lightness of it all, as well as the updated kernel.
Alpine Linux remains, in my opinion, an excellent and flexible solution in the Linux environment.
J'ai quand même un peu galéré à mettre ça en place, donc j'ai fait un pense-bête-tuto : recevoir les mails adressés à root ou autre user dans ma boîte mail personnelle. J'ai testé sur 3 machines différentes, ça a marché directement sur les 3
Why updating iPhones in their sealed boxes might have some downsides, Amazon’s “AI” turned out to just be people, LLMs hallucinating imaginary dependencies is potentially a security risk, Aruba backs up its government data to the Internet Archive, and disk queue schedulers in Linux.
Fun in the morning....
My two #shelly plugs just went out - server rack and desktop.
I don't have a clue why they failed, let alone both at the same time.
The only thing that comes to mind is that there was a firmware upgrade.... #sysadmin fun for sure 😂
Hm. I wonder if I can get any fediverse admins onboard to disable all images on their instance on the World Sight Day in October, so that only alt text shows up.