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It feels like Samsung used the Linux community here as a free testbed. Samsung knew that only Linux supported queued trim, so releasing it without proper testing is just externalizing the disproportionately increased cost of testing to the Linux community.
It feels like Samsung used the Linux community here as a free testbed. Samsung knew that only Linux supported queued trim, so releasing it without proper testing is just externalizing the disproportionately increased cost of testing to the Linux community.
Is the loss of reputation really worth less than the value of the externalised testing?
With Samsungs finished-forms walling the company already tells Linux users to not expect any support, at all. So, that is consisting with the testbed-theory.
if one machine failed and failover kicked in correctly, why was the engineer paged?
I have this running on my Ubuntu Thinkpad with A Samsung 840 Pro as a weekly cron job. should I turn it off ? #!/bin/sh # call fstrim-all to trim all mounted file systems which support it set -e # This only runs on Intel and Samsung SSDs by default, as some SSDs with faulty # firmware may encounter data loss problems when running fstrim under high I/O # load (e. g. https://launchpad.net/bugs/1259829). You can append…
Probably, unless you're running a kernel that was released within the last couple of weeks and includes this patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/9a9324d
To me, this sort of thing brings home the value of not running your own machines. Sure, Amazon's/Google's clouds have quirks, but it's far less likely that you're going to have to debug faulty hardware in this way. It sounds like a team of more than one person worked on this at least part-time for weeks -- how much is that worth? It's not just the cost of hiring extra people to do the work; often small companies simp…
Many use-cases just require the job to be done on your computers due to security and privacy reasons. Yes, Amazon's and Google's services are in some ways less secure than your own computer, because they are hosted by companies which are subject to a government that doesn't value privacy, not even of it's own citizens. That means said government can, just to give a concrete example, NSL the companies to give up all they have about you, and you wouldn't even know notice.
When the government puts national security above fundamental human rights there is something dangerously wrong.
I have a Samsung SSD 850 PRO 512GB in my Windows PC. And I have TRIM enabled in Windows: > fsutil.exe behaviour query DisableDeleteNotify DisableDeleteNotify = 0 Should I be worried?
To me, this sort of thing brings home the value of not running your own machines. Sure, Amazon's/Google's clouds have quirks, but it's far less likely that you're going to have to debug faulty hardware in this way. It sounds like a team of more than one person worked on this at least part-time for weeks -- how much is that worth? It's not just the cost of hiring extra people to do the work; often small companies simp…
There is no cloud - just other people's computers. Many use-cases just require the job to be done on your computers due to security and privacy reasons. Yes, Amazon's and Google's services are in some ways less secure than your own computer, because they are hosted by companies which are subject to a government that doesn't value privacy, not even of it's own citizens. That means said government can, just to give a c…
A cloud is just a sysadmin staff with a Sufficiently Large Deployment to have ironed out all the kinks in their hardware.