129: The New Linker Strangles
OpenZFS Mastery has reached chapter 9, on boot loaders.
The most tediously terrifying system administration task is an operating system upgrade. The new kernel might not boot the system, but that’s the least of your problems. What if a critical program requires an old version of a shared library? Maybe that new terminal mode is subtly incompatible with your application. Or perhaps the new linker strangles your mission-critical software. Sometimes problems aren’t immediately apparent but creeping damage becomes visible after a week or two, when reverting the upgrade becomes even more…
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