David Cross @david@mastodon.crossfamilyweb.com

@phen314 5 or 6?!

@TechConnectify Ok... now I see why you expect the strong reactions.. definitely antagonizing viewers with the snark.. That said, how did you miss the obvious pun and punch 'enLIGHTened' in the script!

@TechConnectify Wait... that is the video that you think would cause strong reactions? I expect this to be absolutely tame compared to your EV, humidifier, or heat pump videos!

@phen314 it has been wild to watch the social networks colide. For years I had, almost exclusively, my alternative and legacy social networking circles with almost zero overlap.

Finally fully completed my offsite postgresql wal replica... 16 months of wal logs to replay! at about 40 gig/day of logs (ish)

@fongaboo I'm funnier too!

@phen314 How did you find me?

@SamUpstate Favorites are private between you and the creator. So if you are trying to signal 'good' to the creator, it works. But nobody else can see it.

@SamUpstate Welcome to the party! :)

@masto @TechConnectify I've had those cool-mist ones for years. They keep breaking. I just need to get one with a wick. I originally gave up on them because of the perceived maintenance costs (water additives, wicks) and fear of mold. I think it is time to reconsider.

@tykling @scanlime 😒 😆

@tykling @scanlime I've had many times more data unavailability due to ZFS than I have had with other filesystems. Just within the past month I tried to remove a cache partition from a running ZFS system (that was idle at the time, even though it shouldn't matter), and it locked the entire filesystem, and because of where the lock was zfs wouldn't unmount and I had to hard reset). I hit these issues *all the time*. Tried to import an exported zfs set and randomly some wouldn't import

@tykling @scanlime I use stock UFS with or without journaling (but always with softupdates) depending on usecase (for example, databases are self journaled, adding journaling on top of journaling only adds additional write load.. and journaled write load is synchronous, so you take a double hit in a very expensive operation for no benefit). I find ZFS to be wildly unpredictable in terms of performance (combination of ARC interactions and lack of preservation of file locality) and (1/2)

@gavininny Welcome to the fediverse!

@scanlime I have used ZFS since about 2007 (when it was added to FreeBSD). my take on ZFS is that it in many ways is like IPv6. It is an ivory tower design of what a filesystem 'should' be, and is neither practical nor pragmatic on what a filesystem needs to be. It is over-complicated in the wrong parts (and yes, I know this makes me an absolute heretic in the #FreeBSD community)

@pamela wasn't it orange?

@a2_4am What killed them? (how did they die? motors? bad caps?)