Hoax the story of Marsala: A few days ago we published the tragic but funny story of Marco Marsala, who allegedly deleted his entire company with a wrong code line last week.
The absolute case of the bad luck of the computing - or a carelessness, as reported by some commentators.
But they are not everything they look like. In other words: another hoax on the internet.
Speaking in Italian version of Republic, Marsala explained that the story went viral advertisingof his company.
Marsala even mentions that the story actually happened, someone deleted his company with a wrong line of code "in 2006."
In the story first reported by The Independent, Marsala posted on the forum Server & Hosting Fault a call for help as he deleted his company with the “rm -rf” command using Ansible.
As the authoritative Independent explained: "rm" tells the computer delete r deletes everything within a specific directory and f stands for “force”, which tells the computer to ignore the usual warnings that come when deleting files.
Server Fault commentators then reported the bad news: there was no way to recover the files.
Όμως, μετά την αποκάλυψη της φάρσας (hoax), ο Marsala, ανέφερε ότι οι σχολιαστές ξέχασαν το γεγονός ότι το Ansible εμποδίζει στην πραγματικότητα λάθη τόσο μεγάλης κλίμακας, και ότι κάτι τέτοιο “δεν μπορεί να συμβεί” με αυτό το tool.
"Almost every serious administrator uses it," Marsala said.
Moral lesson of history? As always, do not believe everything you read on the internet.
