sudo-bmitch

Docker filesystem layers can be tricky to wrap your head around, and even more so how indoes work. Lets take an example and see what happens when you tail a file that exists in the image as part of your container entrypoint:

host$ docker run -d --rm --name test-inode debian tail -f /etc/issue                              
54bbfa8fa1f6751593dcf23103a1cdaec7fde8ffbcb3e31bab466b4f7a3581e7

Now make some changes to the file:

vancluever

Disabling GNOME Tracker and Other Info

GNOME's tracker is a CPU and privacy hog. There's a pretty good case as to why it's neither useful nor necessary here: http://lduros.net/posts/tracker-sucks-thanks-tracker/

After discovering it chowing 2 cores, I decided to go about disabling it.

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