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> one of the Linux developers reverse engineered the protocol, breaking the licensing terms Tridge never accepted the license terms of BitKeeper and re-implemented client libraries…

Ah okay. It seems that my re-adds were failing on arrays that don't have a bitmap. I was testing it on small arrays that don't get a bitmap by default.

But why do you repartition it? Doesn't putting the exact same partition table on a device that already has a partition table result in no actual changes?

Init scripts in /etc/init.d/ are not used when there is a systemd unit of the same name. Other than being in your filesystem they have zero effect on you.

> Maybe try harder with the negotiating first. If you read the bug report there is a period of about 7 weeks where they are asking the maintainer why it was removed, offering to fi…

> is Debian the sole developer of this one? The init script is specific to Debian. I don't know what network-manager's stance is on init system support or even if they have one. I …

I submitted this as being interesting because I feel it is a turning point in Debian's long init wars. The most recent Debian General Resolution on init support said something like…

As the article tries to state, the problem isn't that bad blocks can happen. The problems with md's bad blocks log are: - Most of the time the entries don't correspond to actual ba…

To remove the BBL from the devices that make up the array that the root filesystem is on you would need to boot into a rescue environment and assemble it there. While the debian-in…

By choosing "expert" mode you can choose between any of the partition types (much more besides mbr and gpt). In standard mode it will pick mbr if none of your devices are bigger th…

It's on new devices in an installer context for a RAID-1 as the text you quote describes, so yes I do know what I'm doing. But fair enough, it might give other people bad ideas, so…

Interesting. What's the sfdisk for? Is that why my attempts to use --re-add aren't working? I also tried "mdadm --zero-superblock /dev/sdb1" to make mdadm forget that was ever an a…

Hi, article author here. That's interesting! I'd possibly never noticed this because my serial console session has always been itself inside screen (now tmux with screen bindings),…

Hi, article author here. I just tried that out on an Ubuntu 18.04 machine but it didn't work: $ sudo mdadm --fail /dev/md0 /dev/sdb1 --remove /dev/sdb1 --re-add /dev/sdb1 --update=…

Author here. I'm sure you're right. I pretty certain I could have charged them much much more and they'd still have accepted it. In conversation with the software eng it was implie…

I'm wondering exactly how far this promise of support will go. It's no secret (although it still surprises some) that only software in the "main" suite is supported by LTS, so all …

Mark Shuttleworth is referring to the process to redistribute something called "Ubuntu". The email from Mark seems extremely clear that Canonical's position is that there is no way…

put in the elbow-grease yourself to remove the trademarks Mark Shuttleworth has made it clear that in Canonical's opinion there is nothing you can do that would let you skip the st…

But Canonical refuses to clarify what you would have to remove in order to make Ubuntu redistributable without asking their permission. In fact, going further, Mark Shuttleworth ha…

I interviewed for a non-customer-facing ops position at Rackspace UK in 2006 and one stage was them handing me a pack of coloured pencils and blank paper and telling me to draw wha…

Several copyright holders have assigned their copyright to SFC, so SFC can act on their behalf. There is also at least one copyright holder that is unhappy about Canonical distribu…

Creating RAID devices and rebooting twice (once to start using the RAID device, and again to stop using it afterwards) seems excessive here. I do this sort of thing with a script v…