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This is one of the weirdest problems I’ve had for a while. On one of the servers I look after my home directory was a zfs filesystem set to /home/user. If I ever did an rm -rf on a directory structure underneath my home dir, it would remove all the files but leave all directories in place. The only way to get rid of the directories was to recursively remove each one. Painful.

Today I discovered a fix – although I don’t know the reason why. (continue reading…)

I came across an intriguing problem today whilst trying to rebuild a server. The server was physically located somewhere I couldn’t utilise a boot server, so I decided to quickly throw together a WAN Boot server (which I won’t go into here, but see ref [1] below). (continue reading…)