ХудожникElectronic Mail (e-mail) was brought in to the corporate world in the early 1990’s and, at that time, it was considered a “secondary” service to most employers. A very short time later, by the mid-1990’s, that “secondary” service was viewed by those same people as “company critical”. Despite the constant warnings by the tech world
You may have noticed that fresh installations of Fedora 15 have network device named of “em1” or “p1n1” rather than the easy to remember “eth” nomenclature. It seems that those in the Linux world wish to take a step backwards, forgetting all that was gained with the simplified naming convention. Dial back time about 15
Device mapper does a great job at translating devices to somewhat human readable format. Yet, that layer breaks down in the logging. Let’s take the situation where you have an error in the filesystem that is getting reported in dmesg or syslog: [1297912.800024] EXT4-fs (dm-1): error count: 1 [1297912.800030] EXT4-fs (dm-1): initial error at 1322435090: