Linux, musical road-dogging, and daily life by Paul W. Frields
 
Author: <span>Paul Frields</span>

On the brink.

I sent some thoughts to fedora-announce-list tonight about the upcoming Fedora 9 release. An enormous and sincere thank you to all our contributors for making this such a great release. Just a little over eleven hours away… ?

Slipping behind.

The only problem with putting your head down and your back against the stone is that sometimes you almost miss out on the scenery. Dear Trent, I’m guessing you made out pretty well on that whole Ghosts I-IV thing. Thanks for putting the bastards in their place with another CC-licensed …

Flushing the pipes.

It’s true, we had some problems with permission bits and rsync last night with the release candidate, which has resulted in some incomplete leaky mirrors. Users who try these mirrors may find that they don’t get what they’re bargaining for, because of missing bits. (Not to mention which, everything’s still …

A disk, by any other name.

Karsten, I don’t think we should be using, or telling others to use, the /dev/sd* device names at all anymore, when there’s a far better alternative — /dev/disk/*. The /dev/disk/* namespace has several ways for identifying your disks beyond a shadow of a doubt. For instance, /dev/disk/by-label/* files show your …