Shared NTFS filesystems Posted Wednesday night, November 23rd, 2011

Say you have a computer with dual boot, using Linux and Windows. Say also that you use the NTFS Windows partition from Linux, both reading and writing data there. Now do this:

  1. Start Windows, and put it into hibernation.
  2. Start Linux, write something in the NTFS partition.
  3. Resume Windows.

The changes you made to the NTFS partition whist in Linux will not be visible from Windows; this will manifest as either not being able to see whatever changes you made, or as "file corruption" or some bull like that.

Solution: Reboot Windows.

Nice experiment that I'd like to do but I'm just too lazy: Check if a hibernated Linux can spot the changes made to the NTFS partition whilst using Windows.

Tags: debian
Debian forks glibc, Drepper forks Debian Posted late Wednesday night, May 7th, 2009

Seen here. Nothing against Ted T'so, though :)

The Debian project has dropped the use of the GNU project's glibc C library, substituting the eglibc fork, as glibc maintainer Ulrich Drepper refused patches or bug reports for several architectures Debian relied on.

"Any change will negatively impact well designed architectures for the sole benefit of this embedded crap," said Drepper. "Famously good architectures like x86. Can you believe, these people wanted their C library to work in systems with shells other than bash! These people must think they're signing my pay check."

Drepper has, in retaliation, announced his own fork of Debian. It will be created in cooperation with Joerg Schilling and Tuomo Valkonen and be based on OpenSolaris with Ion running on XFree86 as the standard window manager. "Keith Packard ruined X," said Valkonen. The standard file system will be ext4, given its proven ability to cause data loss in user software the maintainers consider ill-written.

The project will be licensed under both the intersection and union of the GPL, LGPL, CDDL, MIT and the thing TuomoV wrote for Ion. This is not anticipated to be a problem in practice with real-life users, at least not until one exists.

"YOU!" said David Dawes of XFree86. "YOU'VE BEEN TALKING TO THEM, HAVEN'T YOU! YOU'RE CONSPIRING WITH THEM! THOSE GUYS! THEY STOLE IT ALL! THEY PUT A RADIO IN MY HEAD! LINUX/BSD WEENIES! I'LL SHOW 'EM! HELL YES!" "That means he's onside with us," said Valkonen. "Dave's been a bit terse since he finally lost it trying to fix his own broken modeline."


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Debian package dependency graphs
Posted Saturday evening, December 20th, 2008