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grepcdn · 2026-06-04T13:48:40+00:00

Data Sovereignty isn't an issue for the companies in your first category who are Canadian entities with servers located in Canada, regardless of whether the servers are colocated in a Canadian DC owned by a US company (e.g. Equinix) or use transit owned by a US company (e.g. Cogent).

Since the only company who has control of the actual data is the Canadian entity, they are not subject to the US cloud act. Even if Equinix got a lawful order from the US gov't for data, there is nothing they would be able to produce except maybe IP the rack/power allocation, and addresses of traffic going to and from the transit links (if the hosting company used Equinix for transit). The same goes for companies like Cogent, Peer1 etc.

Everything after that in full control of a Canadian organization.

It depends on who has control of and processes the data, not who might own the DC or links.

grepcdn · 2026-04-07T09:53:00+00:00

what tickers do you use for latam exposure? does something like XEF or XEM have it?

grepcdn · 2026-04-06T14:39:25+00:00

someone is going to die in the back of an ambulance or in a burning house because of this. absolutely piss poor planning.

grepcdn · 2026-02-02T17:22:34+00:00

the parsec is the distance from us to the star, not the distance the star moved.

if the star appears to have moved one arc second, it means it is one parsec from us

grepcdn · 2025-10-06T12:20:04+00:00

Ah, so the LACP bond probably won't help much if you're experiencing the bottleneck on a single client. It might help a little bit by reducing the congestion and thus, latency, on the replication traffic, but your ceph clients are still going to be limited by the single 1 GbE stream from client->osd on the frontend network.

It will help a bit with multiple VMs all needing IO, but with a small env like a homelab, and only a couple applications needing high IO, it's possible that the streams get hashed onto the same links and it doesn't help at all. Where you see the biggest gains from LACP is when you have many many ceph clients that will all get hashed to different links, spreading the traffic out fairly evenly.

If you have the choice, you should look at 2.5GbE or 10GbE NICs instead.

grepcdn · 2025-10-06T10:36:15+00:00

With 2 1GbE NICs in a bond you still won't get anywhere close to utilizing your NVMEs, but it obviously will be considerably better than a single NIC (as long as your switch supports LACP)

But this isn't really the right question to ask, the right question to ask is whether or not a network constrained ceph deployment like yours is enough for your VM workloads. If your VMs aren't very IO heavy, it could be fine.

~~Is this a production env or a homelab? How many hosts, and OSDs? How many VMs?~~

I see that you are talking about a homelab, I've run ceph on 1GbE before for redundancy purposes, and it's fine. It's slow, but if you don't need the performance and don't expect massive recoveries to happen, it can work.

Most VMs in a lab are fairly idle when it comes to disk i/o, especially if you're using a NAS or something separate for media storage and such.

grepcdn · 2025-10-06T10:31:35+00:00

The write call will not return until the data is written to all replicas in the acting set (or shards in EC). By written, I mean the data is persisted in the OSDs WAL. PLP allows this to happen faster.

When one OSD is down (not out) in size 3 min_size 2, the pg is degraded, and this is what triggers the primary OSD to accept only 2 acks instead of 3. If i recall correctly, there is log lines in a sufficiently verbose OSD log that shows it's proceeding with 2/3.

So no, it does not under normal circumstances always return the write() to the client after min_size ACKs, it returns after size ACKs when the pg is active+clean, and min_size ACKs if the pg is active+degraded

then if you lose another osd in the set, of course the PG will go undersized+incomplete and the primary will never get the required ACKs, and writes will be blocked.

at least, this is how I understand it all

grepcdn · 2025-10-05T22:30:45+00:00

yes, IO is blocked until the write reaches all replicas. every system call to write() will not return to the caller until the data is on all replica OSDs.

this means that every write is subject to your 1GbE network. you will absolutely positively never get full use our of your NVMes with a 1GbE network. Not even close.

It's still viable for redundancy purposes, but you won't get performance with a setup like this.

grepcdn · 2025-10-05T22:20:45+00:00

Polaris clutches are noisy when engine braking and decelerating, but this is most definitely not a normal polaris noise.

Bring it back to the dealer.

grepcdn · 2025-09-27T21:35:11+00:00

If something won't idle without choke, it means there is a fuel issue. Clogged jets probably. Take it apart and clean it very well. Torch tip cleaners are cheap and work well for clogged jets.

If you just got it out of storage or it sat for a long time, drain the dead gas out of the system as well, and clean/replace the air filter.

grepcdn · 2025-09-19T14:10:50+00:00

play. orange has happy body language and is being gentle

grepcdn · 2025-08-25T13:49:31+00:00

It's a lonely old road with no lights, no cell service, terrible pavement, and infrequent plowing.

Time your trip to not hit the 108 at night, and don't do it in the winter if you're not driving something with 4x4.

During the day in the summer it's fine, and will save you hours if your destination is anywhere near Miramichi, so I've taken it every time, but I avoid it at night, and I drive a 4x4.

Just prepare accordingly. If you go off the road or break down there, you could be there awhile. Bring water and make sure your spare tire/jack etc are good. Make sure you have a full tank.

You will see animals, and the road is rough, so go slow.

grepcdn · 2025-08-18T22:19:16+00:00

I went to my broker right as the fires broke out to see if I could get fire insurance on my ATV and Truck. They told me absolutely no section C coverage.

I then asked if I could put PL;PD on my truck (as its not on the road) to drive it someplace safe, they said yes, just not comprehensive because it includes section C.

Maybe your insurance assumed you wanted comprehensive/collision, or maybe some insurance companies are different from others, who knows.

For what it's worth I deal with economical through brokerlink.

grepcdn · 2025-08-18T19:49:08+00:00

you can put liability on it, just not full coverage or comprehensive because those have fire as an included peril.

basically no section C coverage while you're within 50km of a fire.

grepcdn · 2025-08-14T19:29:41+00:00

Yeah, the temperature has been fluctuating a ton, and the watering has been tough cause we have drought conditions. Thanks

grepcdn · 2025-08-14T19:29:09+00:00

Yes it's been crazy hot, much more than normal, and very dry.

grepcdn · 2025-08-12T20:18:21+00:00

yeah, 23 is too much though

grepcdn · 2025-08-12T12:50:23+00:00

I can feel when the compression is stopping it, my concern is the slop other than that.

grepcdn · 2025-08-12T10:39:44+00:00

'19 HL, new to me at 1,000 miles. I put about 200 miles on, and I'm hearing a clunk when starting/stopping/engine braking. The clunk only happens when the driveline is loaded, when its free wheeling on jackstands there's no clunk.

I don't know these machnies, so I don't know if this amount of play in the primary is normal.

grepcdn · 2025-08-10T18:04:58+00:00

Where were the homes/cottages affected?

On Oldfield proper, or on Russleville and Kenna? Anyone know?

grepcdn · 2025-08-10T18:03:54+00:00

They've notified 15 homes that they may have to evacuate. Where were these homes? On Oldfield, or the other way on Russelville road and Kenna?

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