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Re:Seagate just reinvented the disk interface using Ethernet on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:29AM (#6610576)
I'm seriously skeptical of this protocol performance. Ethernet and TCP/IP induce a pretty heavy overhead. This overhead is totally acceptable in LAN/WAN networks, but in case of storage network you want to keep latencies as low as possible.
Re:LinkedIn Intro: Doing the Impossible on iOS on Thursday October 24, 2013 @08:45AM (#6604886)
What a huge, ugly crotch.
Re:Introducing Kirk on Monday September 23, 2013 @12:13PM (#6431961)
Dreams: "I’ve wanted to create my very own operating system, one which I have complete and total control over."

Reality: Another Debian clone out there.

Re:OSTree – Robust OS upgrades for Linux on Monday August 26, 2013 @12:01PM (#6277884)
From https://people.gnome.org/~walters/ostree/doc/ostree-package-...:

> OSTree only supports recording and deploying complete (bootable) filesystem trees. It has no built-in knowledge of how a given filesystem tree was generated or the origin of individual files, or dependencies, descriptions of individual components.

Um-m, isn't this what snapshots (e.g. LVM snapshots) are for? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re:Why no one is looking for ‘rockstar programmers’ on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @09:17AM (#6126702)
In case of sysadmins, those five points can be boiled down to just two: ability to learn and ethics.
Re:Tell HN: WTF are you waiting for? Seriously? on Monday June 24, 2013 @12:09PM (#5933829)
> So, as of now, if we decided to create some sort of Open source project, who is willing to devote a few cycles a month to its building?

"You can’t solve social problems using technology".

Sorry to disappoint.

Re:Salt: Like Puppet, Except It Doesn’t Suck on Monday June 24, 2013 @11:56AM (#5933712)
I use SaltStack for managing a render farm consisting of 73 Ubuntu nodes. My requirements are rather simple, really: most states just install some packages, put configuration files into place (sometimes using a template) and enable/start services. However, I can't recall a single problem when setting everything up. SaltStack is clean, simple, and just works.