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Entries for September, 2016

Ubuntu 16.04 Runs Automatic Updates Whether You Say So or Not in the Installer

After selecting “No automatic updates” in the Ubuntu 16.04 server installer, I expected that the system would not attempt to upgrade anything without my permission, just like every version before. Turns out that is not the case. I found out the hard way when my production database shut down to upgrade in the middle of […]

Install zfs-auto-snapshot on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS/Debian

zfs-auto-snapshot not being available for 16.04 was not a situationĀ I thought I would run into, yet here we are, disappointed by Canonical once again. In the meantime, I have ported the package from Trusty (14.04.5) to work on Xenial (16.04.1) and Debian Jessie. You can download the Ubuntu 16.04 package here, and install it by […]