Free Software. Free Speech. That’s the way it works.
This second Eray Award of the year goes to Kai Hendry for his No GPG thanks blog post, suggesting to use something like a wiki to manage package uploads to Debian in lieu of GPG-authenticated uploads.
Put down the crack pipe. No, really. If you’re not getting the whole point of GPG in the context of the Debian Project, I’d suggest you drop out of the NM queue ASAP.
So, here it is, the hard drive in my mother’s laptop (HP nx9105, 10 months old) just broke down this week, with some important data on it (I do have backups, but it broke down in between 2 backups with some important changes to the data – accounting and payroll).
The laptop was running an AMD64 Sarge on an XFS filesystem. Fortunately, XFS shuts the filesystem down when the underlying block device fails, so the damages are quite limited. dd_rescue to the rescue, only 40 kB of the 40 GB partition couldn’t be recovered. An xfs_repair run later, the FS mounts with only 30 files in lost+found: 10 of them are device nodes, 10 are empty files, another 5 are sockets and the remaining 5 are mails from anacron.
I just love this filesystem. SGI, you guys rock. All of this just went as planned when I installed the machine in July last year; I chose XFS for its ability to not screw up the FS when the underlying block device crashes and for the powerful and reliable set of maintenance tools that goes with it.
… José Luis Tallón for the Intent to hijack Bacula thread on -devel.
The Eray award is named after Eray “Exa” Ozkural, notorious for the way he fucked up his NM application (though other names could have been chosen as well).