Ubuntu is a good Linux, but reiserfs let me down this autumn (nothing personal, the other linux filesystems suck too), and I had a particularly stupid installer destroy ~/.mozilla last month. I badly wanted a ZFS home directory (not badly enough to go near ZFS-FUSE; I’m not deranged ). Nothing fancy, just a mirrored zpool [...]
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Stinkstation, more like
DISCLAIMER: As I said , I only run openlink so I can serve NFS (samba and netatalk are too slow for fullscreen video over 100Mbit). If I was running samba and/or appletalk I would probably not have had a problem. That said: if you setup NFS on your linkstation, NEVER EVER EVER (ever) backup using [...]
NAS flash
Flashing openlink went alright (takes ages though. It’s not kidding about doing it over a crossover cable and it’s terrifying doing it from XP). Somehow /dev/console isn’t created, which has, er, interesting consequences but is easily fixed . Adding NFS was a doddle (keeping uids in sync is another story but what’s new). Multicast DNS [...]
