Quoting Steve Litt (sl...@troubleshooters.com): > Substitute the word "needlessly complex" for "overengineered" and I > don't like it either. But 1), I don't think you'd get anywhere near > universal agreement that by_path, by_id, etc is either overengineered > or needlessly complex, [...]
One interesting fact about applying _local policy_ to system administration is that universal agreement (i.e., vetted by others elsewhere) is neither required nor useful. > and 2) ANYBODY can make a typo, completely > unrelated to "not bothering to look at dmesg | tail". That's a risk with almost _any_ invocation using root authority of inherently dangerous tools like /bin/dd . The earliest and most important lesson for all junior sysadmins is 'If you break it, you buy it.' > I think a more relevant constructive criticism would have been "where > were the backups?". And 'Be incredibly sure of your syntax before running /bin/dd as root.' _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
