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pinkeen / DOCKER_SYSTEMD_CGROUPV2.md
Last active July 13, 2025 16:16
Run a systemd container using cgroupv2

Run a systemd container using cgroupv2 [NOTES]

In theory this would allow the nested systemd init to manage its own resources via slices and scopes - kind of like with LXC's nested mode but without the nasty security implication of bind mounting the real cgroupfs into the container.

Running a systemd container is not the only thing that this would enable - together with fuse-overlayfs it might allow one to run containers inside containers more securely.

The problem is that by default the nested group is mounted ro into the container which should not be necessary according to my research. It gets mounted rw as expected when userns-remap is enabled in Docker what is not desirable for me. I am not sure if docker/moby/containerd is at fault here or if it's a limitation of Linux control groups or user namespaces. It would be great if som

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shamil / mount_qcow2.md
Last active July 14, 2025 21:00
How to mount a qcow2 disk image

How to mount a qcow2 disk image

This is a quick guide to mounting a qcow2 disk images on your host server. This is useful to reset passwords, edit files, or recover something without the virtual machine running.

Step 1 - Enable NBD on the Host

modprobe nbd max_part=8
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jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 17, 2025 12:17
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD