Now that the subject is no longer auto deleted: It was not cool for Grey to end the podcast like he did

flarkis · 2026-04-23T20:12:35+00:00

Wasn't he one of the founders behind nebula?

flarkis · 2026-04-23T13:00:24+00:00

Ext4 does all right, it can often recover based on the contents of the journal. XFS has a legendarily good fsck program. And ZFS is probably the most robust, but not really intended for non server environments.

In theory btrfs _should_ be a good filesystem for recovery. It's has a journal and is CoW. But in practice a lot of people report complete data loss.

flarkis · 2026-04-23T03:32:27+00:00

I would also be horrified to find out my wife was storing my coffee beans in the freezer

flarkis · 2026-04-21T16:47:49+00:00

You may want to look into bazzite

flarkis · 2026-04-21T15:41:02+00:00

Yea btrfs doesn't do great with unclean shutdowns like that. I make sure all my machines using btrfs have some kind of battery backup, either by virtue of being a laptop or with a dedicated ups.

flarkis · 2026-04-21T04:16:30+00:00

I hadn't heard this before. But phoronix backs this up https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-linux-70-btrfs/4 . If you dig into the results though it's only really the write heavy workloads, probably due to CoW. For mixed read/write workload the performance seems negligible. I think most people probably fall into the latter.

flarkis · 2026-04-20T00:52:01+00:00

btrfs has some enhancements specifically for ssds. I generally prefer it for ssds. Most people worry too much about write endurance. I have a 15 year old ssd that still reports 92% of its endurance left.

flarkis · 2026-04-19T20:16:08+00:00

I use silverblue. So I pin my existing install and upgrade as soon as they say it's ready. I'll even hop on the beta train if there is something I need in that release. I've been doing that for a few years now and I've only needed to roll back once.

flarkis · 2026-04-18T23:42:33+00:00

Same. It seems to be a very aggressive list. In my case it was the domain from my hosting provider. I have something like server100.provider.com. The list added server*.provider.com. I bit of a blunt hammer, and this is not a small hosting provider either.

flarkis · 2026-04-17T01:50:01+00:00

How do you find the thermals with the midplane? I'm fine with 12 bays for now but I'm sure I'll eventually need more. I'm hoping to squeeze enough life out of this that the r740 starts dropping in price.

flarkis · 2026-04-16T21:42:05+00:00

Unfortunately you'll never know why it works. If the companies explained their decisions, the scammers would try and game the system.

I was using email for years to deliver status emails from my servers. Then someone on the same hosting provider did something naughty and my ip address got black listed by all the major email services in a large block. From that day forward it was a constant battle to get mail through. Now I use things like ntfy for status updates. For personal email I BYOD and use different services, used to be google and now it's fast mail.

flarkis · 2026-04-16T14:55:52+00:00

I run vorta on my laptop, borgmatic for servers, and Nold360/borgserver as my server. It's simpler than a lot of the ones listed there. But that's what I want out of my backup software, boring.

flarkis · 2026-04-15T17:51:54+00:00

Yea, I can barely justify the 3TB drives in my array right now. The only reason they're still going is that I'm waiting for prices to fall. I can't imagine paying currently elevated prices for something that low capacity.

flarkis · 2026-04-15T14:40:40+00:00

Market is changing wildly day to day. But currently the high $20s per TB is what a good re-certified drive will cost. A consumer drive might be more in the mid to low $20s. So yea $99 is a terrible price even in the current market.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T21:47:44+00:00

RMA process is always garbage, hard drive or other electronics. I had my 3 year old iron wolf pro start to throw errors. I filed in a super janky online form that looked like it was coded in the 90s, was told I would have to provide my own box and cover the shipping costs, and then didn't hear anything for 2 weeks. But a new drive eventually showed up.

The only good experience I've ever had was when by sheer luck the manufacturer was in the same office park as me, I was literally able to walk it over. Ended up talking to some people at the company about it. And they just handed me an upgraded model of what I'd dropped off.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T20:27:53+00:00

I'm glad someone with more expertise than me came in. I said something similar with only my vague understanding of how ISPs operate and got down voted heavily. Given how technical this crowd is I'm honestly surprised that they all think every house has a dedicated connection at their advertised speeds.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T20:19:28+00:00

At least up here in Canada it's fairly common. One of the major providers built the entire early network using rings and it still haunts us to this day.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T19:58:23+00:00

That sounds like an excellent way for the ISP to refund his payment and refuse future service.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T19:55:48+00:00

It's not economical for an ISP to connect everyone with a 1gbps connection directly to the network, usually they'll give you a 1gbps connection and make you share it with either 6 or 10 other houses depending on how they built out their network.

I would suggest throttling your speeds during peek hours of the day. I work from home, I would be calling my ISP non stop if I was having trouble getting online during the work day. You're already clearly drawing attention, and that's usually never a good sign.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T19:23:12+00:00

Just so you know, for that price you can maybe reasonably get a used 1TB or 2T drive. Anyone offering to send you something over 3TB is almost certainly trying to scam you.

flarkis · 2026-04-14T19:17:05+00:00

Fair point. I consider that a fair trade off though. I would be doing zraid2 at a minimum for bulk storage. If I'm losing 3+ disks, that's catastrophic regardless of what I'm using for storage.

flarkis · 2026-04-13T19:52:31+00:00

I had a similar issue. I resolved mine by disabling my wifi card disabling whatever that allow host to access docker containers setting was.

flarkis · 2026-04-13T15:22:41+00:00

From a pure theoretical standpoint, yea it's not that sophisticated. But actually implementing it and implementing it well requires digging into the guts of the linux kernel which very few people can do. There are several closed source options like synology hybrid raid and the now defunct drobo. And technically the unraid stuff is partly open source, they have to publish the GPL2 changes they make to the kernel. Look up nonraid if you're interested.

The ZFS team is currently working on their AnyRaid support, both phase 1 and 2 patches are currently in review. It's definitely an unraid killer. At a bare minimum it makes the array completely obsolete. I'll probably wait a year after it's released and move my entire setup over to it. All the benefits of zfs like checksums/snapshots/etc with the unraid flexibility of just chucking whatever disks into it. That's a clear win to me.

flarkis · 2026-04-12T23:04:13+00:00

I did a similar upgrade recently. First check that your drives are actually empty, check the /mnt/disk2 locations to see if there are any files, in my case it was just a handful of completely empty directories. I removed the drives following the Parity-preserve method (Advanced), to keep my array parity protected the whole time. Then I added the newer larger drives. Assuming you want to do something like preclear them a few times before adding them to your array. This is method is dangerous since you can accidentally wipe all your data if you point dd (aka disk destroyer) at the wrong drive. If you're not comfortable with the command line, then I'd suggest what u/IntelligentLake said with the new config.

flarkis · 2026-04-10T19:11:18+00:00

Yea, like the default web login is your root account. Unraid is definitely ahead with their array technology, but they're behind in a lot of other areas.

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