Debian Updates: Thorsten Alteholz, Stephan Lachnit, and Antoine Beaupré
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Thorsten Alteholz: My Debian Activities in January 2023
FTP master
This month I accepted 419 and rejected 46 packages. The overall number of packages that got accepted was 429. Looking at these numbers and comparing them to the previous month, one can see: the freeze is near. Everybody wants to get some packages into the archive and I hope nobody is disappointed.
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Stephan Lachnit: Installing Debian on F2FS rootfs with deboostrap and systemd-boot
I recently got a new NVME drive. My plan was to create a fresh Debian install on an F2FS root partition with compression for maximum performance. As it turns out, this is not entirely trivil to accomplish. For one, the Debian installer does not support F2FS (here is my attempt to add it from 2021). And even if it did, grub does not support F2FS with the
extra_attrflag that is required for compression support (at least as of grub 2.06).Luckily, we can install Debian anyway with all these these shiny new features when we go the manual road with
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Antoine Beaupré: Major outage with Oricom uplink
The server that normally serves this page, all my email, and many more services was unavailable for about 24 hours. This post explains how and why.
What happened?
Starting February 2nd, I started seeing intermittent packet loss on the network. Every hour or so, the link would go down for one or two minutes, then come back up.
At first, I didn't think much of it because I was away and could blame the crappy wifi or the uplink I using. But when I came in the office on Monday, the service was indeed seriously degraded. I could barely do videoconferencing calls as they would cut out after about half an hour.