More on mismatched sectors on Linux software RAID mirrors

Some brief followups from my first entry on this.

First, the mismatch_cnt numbers are reset from scratch everytime you re-run a check (and probably every time there is a mirrorresync). On many current systems, this means that they will be resetevery week. This makes sense and is even implied by the documentation (in the usual Unixfashion of reading between the lines),but it would have been nice to have it explicitly documented.

(I'm aware that I'm


反戰,因為我們很安全

「黑鷹十五小時」是一套電影,我必須強調,它是一套電影,因為裏頭並沒有索馬里民兵的屍體。

戰爭電影從一開始就註定了是反戰的,這差不多是電影工業的主旋律,只有好像「戰狼300」之類的希臘神話式戰爭,才會對極

家傳秘方

家傳秘方

帶衛兒去茶樓喝茶﹐他的紅臉兒引來不少眼光。光顧這茶樓多次,還是頭一次有這麼多人過來和我們搭訕。可見這天衛兒的臉確是有點嚴重。

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點心阿姐甲端來我們叫的點心,一見衛兒便說:「他的臉兒怎麼了?一
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MuShower的form factor

產品設計我不在行,只知道一件產品的成功與否,能夠吸引到那類型的消費者,基本上,先不談功能,一件產品的form factor其實已主宰了它一半的命運。

看看以下圖片,你猜這是什麼。

這明顯是一個類似車頭燈的物體,對不?

再來個

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雪 ‧ 前路

2001年暑假後,全家由加州老遠搬到維珍尼亞州,那是二千多哩的距離,為的就是一份為期只有一年的客席教職。這一年很苦,申請居留工作證件時波折重重,到學期開始前的兩三個星期仍未辦妥,雖然最終弄到手了,但期

I do not like Unix's fossilization

I like Unix, but I'm not entirely happy with the modern world of Unix,and not for the reason you might expect. Instead of disliking thechanges from the old days, I find it distressing to see Unix slowlyfossilize.

Unix should be picking up new good ideas. It should be adopting betterways of writing shell scripts, adding more little programs,and all of that. Yes, things like seq and (GNU) stat and (GNU) date and time are not in the Posix specification


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命名是一件非常嚴肅的事,對於改壞名的人來說,可能是最不含糊的教訓,因為他會是說得最多「名字都只不過是個稱呼」的人,同時卻因為名字而常常被人掛在嘴邊。

於是大家的命名都爛透了,例如投稿的照片是一幅運動員向

只此一次

只此一次

牛年是個好年,身邊不少朋友當了父母,大家的話題由升學、就業、拍拖、置業、結婚,到了現在的孩子經。彷彿約定一起做,事實卻是全屬巧合。

轉變,來得這樣自然。

轉變,再自然也會有讓人無所適從的時候。

不止
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Thoughts on Avatar...

Not Real - Move on with your Life

Image from Geekologie

From a friend's blog post on Avatar :

People applauded at the end of the film, which I found a bit disturbing. Visually, it was awesome. But we just saw humanity slaughtered on an alien planet. We just saw the greed of humanity at its worst. We just saw a terrible spirituality exalted as ideal. And, finally, we just saw the remnant of the humans sent back “to their dying planet,” and we cheered.

No wonder people feel depressed after stepping out


怕黑

我不怕鬼,卻怕黑。我怕的黑,不是停電時全屋沒有光,也不是深山野嶺月黑風高,而是真真正正徹徹底底完完全全的黑。其實,這種黑我只在很多年前經驗過一次,但到現在仍記憶猶新,絕不想再試。

那次我們十幾個大學同學