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Last In
Personal blog · blog.lastinfirstout.netsystemsprogramming
Last In is a personal blog at blog.lastinfirstout.net about systems and programming. Since 2010, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 8 times. The last post was in 2020, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers cite this blog's posts on filesystem data-loss bugs, including a 2010 post on a bit-by-bug data loss, in ZFS and Btrfs threads. One commenter also lists it among their feeds.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Retired from the day job. Chasing fresh air & sunshine.
What Hacker News says?
I limit my subs to mostly tech and feeds that post infrequently but well. I go back and forth between enabling Hacker News and disabling it. It's too busy and distracting sometimes when I need to get things done and I don't want to get lost it some lengthy article somewhere. Here are my current feeds sans HN http://abstrusegoose.com http://xkcd.com/ http://cmurphycode.posterous.com http://acmel.wordpress.com http://…
Comment linking /
on “Ask HN: Apart from Hacker News, what else you read?”Submitted Strip Charts for Easy Network Traffic Analysis as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI don't disagree that maintainer-goals and practices make me trust ZFS more. They do. But there have been bugs. Last major one I remember in the core code is this one: https://blog.lastinfirstout.net/2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss... But there was a Linux-specific data loss bug with ZFS in 2018: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401 Of course you should use what you like. And I agree that ZFS is safer. But aga…
Comment linking /2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss-running-oracle-on.html
on “Five Years of Btrfs”Submitted Company X Continues to Write Defective Software, Customers Continue to Buy it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI tend to find that minimalist OS's, such as plain Debian installed with no frills or OpenBSD tend to be better candidates for security sensitive machines. Some of the utilities mentioned like Tiger haven't been updated in years. No mention of chroot/jails/zones/etc, which can go a long way to nullifying intrusions when they happen, or integrity tools built into the system (using package managers to check for change…
Comment linking /2009/11/cargo-cult-system-administration.html
on “Securing an Ubuntu Server”Submitted Availability – MTBF, MTTR and the Human Factor as a story · 1 points
HN discussion>How the heck did this ever make it through? Because it was introduced by a FreeBSD developer, and FreeBSD's fs and cp are a generation behind Linux's so they weren't even able to hit this. >I don't think this ever would have happened pre-OpenZFS, and undermines the stable reputation of ZFS. Of course it happened pre-OpenZFS: https://blog.lastinfirstout.net/2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss... From the people that brough…
Comment linking /2010/04/bit-by-bug-data-loss-running-oracle-on.html?m=1
on “ZFS 2.2.1: Block Cloning disabled due to data corruption”Submitted Naked Without Strip Charts as a story · 1 points
HN discussion