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I think I saw Oracle mentioned earlier, this has some info about the VSS integration. It's called 'Oracle VSS Writer': https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/NTQRF/vss.htm#BEIJJCAE I…

For user application it does not signal anything I guess, but I'm not sure if that's important for databases. Databases are usually crash-consistent, which is equivalent to a snaps…

I'm not sure I follow here. Linux does have LVM, what's the problem with it? That's also what the article says: If you have LVM, you don't need any special tool.

From man ssh-add: -c Indicates that added identities should be subject to confirmation be‐ fore being used for authentication. Confirmation is performed by ssh-askpass(1). Successf…

Don't banks take deposits because they want to lend?

I'm not really sure what you mean. The Bank of England article you linked says: > that would leave the buyer’s bank with fewer reserves and more loans relative to its deposits than…

There's a userspace daemon that does that: https://github.com/rfjakob/earlyoom (I am the author)

Author of gocryptfs and co-maintainer of EncFS here. gocryptfs is a FUSE overlay filesystem for Linux like EncFS. But it is written from scratch in Go, uses modern crypto and fixes…