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There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

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Re: There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

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Main thing I've seen with hard links is that deletions delete the source file which about 90% of the time isn't what an end user wants

Only if its the last hard link. If nothing else, its a wee bit of insurance from deletion since no single link removal should remove the file. Anecdote, eons ago, we had a problem where the vendor needed to log in to the machine with the intent that they were going to upload some utilities, fix a problem, and then delete them. Before I let them in, I set up a script that constantly scanned the directory tree they wer…

Clever solution!

Re: There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

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The systemd hate is getting long in the tooth now. It's not like it doesn't do anything with its line count, or that the code is obfuscated.

I’m actually a big fan of systemd. It’s an awesome, general purpose, and flexible init system. I don’t think the complexity it brings is required for Kubernetes.

The second I learned how to write systems unit files was the second I evicted initv/rc.d scripts from my mind. Well, okay, from my search terms at least ;-)

It can even kind of replace cron with timers, and no more mucking with grub. Also, true parallel init tasks. Love it.

Re: There are only 12 binaries in Talos Linux

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There's work in a new kublet replacement that moves things that would normally go into daemonset into systemd (or something like systemd). There's also a neat feature of podman that runs pods as systemd units, which is a nice intermediate step between a more traditional pet server and a full kubernetes cluster.

https://github.com/cpuguy83/containerd-shim-systemd-v1 to do this with containerd.

Also this one: https://github.com/virtual-kubelet/systemk

Although what I was thinking of was an article written somewhere and posted here in HN, and more a broad rethink on Kubernetes.

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