tenchiken

Fun story…

Back in the late 90s, several friends and I were doing the extreme Frisbee thing. An hour or so of just running around like the idiots we were, full tilt.

We stop and hit up the gas station at the corner. Most of us pick up things like Gatorade or soda etc… Not Dave.

This legend grabs 2 fucking jugs, about a gallon in total between them, of full fat chocolate milk.

We get to the check out, pay for the batch. Most of us start drinking right there because we’re absurdly thirsty.

Dave pounds down both jugs immediately… Not even stopping for breath.

You likely see this coming… We all did. Slow motion car crash…

Up it comes without delay. Just 1/2/3…

Chocolate milk

Chocolate milk

… Chocolate milk.

The attendant for the shop got a $150 tip that day.

Dave was the best.

Safety goggles. Smart.

Would have been better as a CD-ROM…

Seeing as how he got ripped.

Gotcha, yeah that makes sense. Thanks

If the sperm dies on day 5… How do the 2 ovulation days matter?

Edit: spaced about bottom of Dad 1 4.5 or whatever days before, then the other dude at very end.

That’s not how that math works…

Power isn’t so bad really. These were all 2tb disks, so ended up with about 40tb total after shenanigans.

Cabling was atrocious. I’d originally been using several pulled 4 disk SAS backplanes from servers thrown out of my work, just screwed down to some pine boards in a stack.

Zip ties and sata/sas cables were the rule.

Overall the drives had 4 small power supplies initially, 300watt iirc. Cheap.

Somewhere I have an old photo from the wiring during the “rescue” but I have to look around.

Disk failure was actually not an issue for ages before. A specific thunderstorm with 2 nearby tornadoes is what caught me this time. Before that, the occasional single disk every 6 months or so.

I still have running arrays using 15 year old disks, many with more than 10 years of that powered on. If you find good models, they can last ages.

Mine would be when I had a 48 bay disk array / JBOD fail on me… badly. After a storm, it killed the larger card that allowed for me to get many of the drives into a PCIe 16x slot, and I was relegated down to only getting ~8 disks per box made from spare hardware. A single box I got 16 going. Add to this mix an SSD for mid-line caching.

These were all running bcache on top of mdraid… One single mount.

Yes I understand how obnoxiously stupid it was to run RAID6 on a 48 disk volume. It was almost all just stuff I could re-acquire over time, not irreplaceable things.

I just HAD to solve this one though.

In come several spare chassis / mobo etc… get a bunch of drives powered and on /dev/ , move to the next.

A couple spare gigabit switches…

several gigabit NICs…

two explicit paths for each machine…

a bit of iSCSI magic, and one machine now had the physical disks all exposed to it… mdadm --assemble blah blah, bit of UUID chaos…

It’s surprising that while a bit speed limited (I think I got just around 110MB/sec reads), it was nicely performant for what a huge mess of wires and disks just strewn out around my rack.

Managed to evacuate all I needed without much issue once I got that going. Now, I try to keep my arrays under 16 drives at a time, or keep a very rigid policy of “I can lose this and don’t care” vs “this box gets RAID10 and/or offsite backups nightly”.

back up your critical stuff people!

Hey, Rimu DID improve! He’s been caught out in the past just outright deleting directly from the DB.

He’s also repeatedly bitched about people screenshotting his chats. I wonder why?

Thats a misrepresented story that Rimu was propagating.

The core issue is that he intentionally went out of the way to try to copy code after directly denying and blocking Mia from submitting PR upstream.

Why deny the code through GIT/Codeberg, only to copy and paste it (incorrectly as well) and claim it as new features from his team?

We know the AGPL well enough and don’t care if patches were taken upstream. Lying about it is the issue at core, and slandering folks at the same time.

Mitch McConnell announces IS discharge from rehabilitation center

I’ll take 2 of em.

Replace the guy with just moneybags on their way to get emptied.

root@kamidake:~# for i in /dev/sd? ; do echo $i; smartctl -a $i |grep Hours| awk ’ { print $10/8760}'; done

/dev/sda

15.6055

/dev/sdb

15.6979

/dev/sdc

6.04909

/dev/sdd

7.35708

/dev/sde

10.618

/dev/sdf

7.28071

/dev/sdg

10.5689

/dev/sdh

10.6264

/dev/sdi

2.28311

/dev/sdj

10.7498

/dev/sdk

10.5832

/dev/sdl

7.35502

/dev/sdm

10.643

/dev/sdn

10.8016

/dev/sdo

10.7558

/dev/sdp

9.11416

root@kamidake:~#

These are running ZFS and I have 2 other boxes with similar, most in the 10-12 year range. Spinning drives.

Good stuff.

Exactly this. We use iocaine for the tarpit.

Heya cypher, that’s iocaine…

After the tesseract nonsense, db0 needed to up the sensitivity of the IP protection and I suspect your IP got hit in the process.

If you can dm one of us, or hit up a mod in https://matrixrooms.info/room/fediverse-anarchist-flotilla:anarchist.nexus , with your IP then db0 or I can get you cleared from the protection.

Sorry about that!

lol.

lmfao even.

I’m the admin of one of the blocked instances. Yay!

I’ve reached out to one of the admins from your server OP, in case there’s a technical issue. In a pinch, you should always feel free to message your server admin if you think there’s an issue!

Often servers will have “Meta” communities, designated as only for communications inside your local server… These are great places to find help like this from folks who may have more understanding.

Zuckerberg and his cronies