When an SSD fails it often reverts to read-only mode. The manufacturers may require you to return the drive to receive a replacement or refund. By which point it is too late. You now have the choice of potentially risking the disclosure of your personal data to a third-party (and your shipment could end up on a lost-parcel auction of it did not get delivered) or missing out on your warranty.

I wonder if the likes of Red Hat, SuSE and Canonical have a support contract as they are commercial redistributors.

Probably not. Why pay someone who's willing to work for free? When he stops working for free, then you pay him. Open source is not exempt from economic principles.

Nice job! Please consider providing an oci (docker/etc) container image (or if you do already, make it easier to find!)

Azure Linux is based on Fedora since version 4.0.

Is it feasible to tie the grid frequency to an external clock reference, such as TAI?

Is one solution to this underground with tunnels?

I do not understand why anyone would want their email provider to be "E2EE". If I want end-to-end encryption then I will exchange public keys with the recipient.

I expect that once the infrastructure is in place then it will be co-opted by governments to enforce their control over the digital domain.

You keep the hash of the request so that you can reject a subsequent request with a different body. This has helped me surface bugs and data issues in other systems.

Do you support multi-pathing, for example, connecting using both ipv4 and ipv6?

That's a tricky one. Sort of - we just didn't have enough reason to implement it (nor IPv6 but this is a low lift, and we can get it done quickly).

We do suport VPD 0x83 and advertise consistent NAA/WWID, so linux will support multiple iscsiadm sessions to the same device, and it will be stitched across sessions as paths to the same disk.

We currently hardcode MC/S to 1 as part of login negotiations, advertise single portal and dropping a path will require a re-login.

So - theoretically yes, you can support multipath and it won't fall on its face, but without any practical benefits of it (no bandwidth aggregation and no failover - no ALUA) - at this point it's a single boring target.

But the underlying plumbing can support it - if you have a real usecase for it.