When creating command-line applications, the user is usually present at the terminal to provide commands to the application and read its output. This is called interactive mode. But sometimes, you want to start a long-running program in the background, so it runs while you’re not present. This is called daemon mode, and the programs themselves […]
Continue reading →So I’ve just returned from a week long vacation to sunny Kos Island in Greece. As I lay beside the swimming pools of the resort I was staying, I found that I had loaded two particular books onto my Kindle. These books were “The C Programming Language” by Kernigan and Ritchie, and “Advanced Programming in […]
Continue reading →Linux’s Logical Volume Manager, or lvm, is a method for dividing a physical disk (or physical volume, PV) into blocks (or physical extents, PE). These blocks can be assigned to partitions (or logical volumes, LV). The process of assigning PE‘s to a LV creates a map for translating PE‘s to LE‘s, called the allocation map. […]
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