Notices by Dr Adrian Simmons (adrinux@social.vivaldi.net)

@nafmo If you have zfs questions https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/latest is a good place to ask. People far more knowledgeable than me there.

(Was set up as an exodus from r/zfs when Reddit started behaving badly. But tends not to come up in searches yet unless you look for it specifically.)

@nafmo More resilient I'd say, it's designed for data integrity. I've had unrecoverable blocks on disks that damaged data and had zfs just automatically repair that data (this is in a simple two disk mirror).

I've also had memory go bad, had long running disk corruption as a result and zfs apparently still maintained integrity. Though in this latter case it was just backups so I did redo the backups from fresh just in case.

Have switched all three of my mdadm/ext4 pools over now. Yeah, I'm no power user. I haven't gotten into all the fancier zfs stuff like parity disks and snapshots yet.

I really like the zfs automated scrubs and associated alerts (via zed daemon), it feels like it's keeping watch on my data. With mdadm it always felt like I found out something was wrong when i felt other symptoms, like a corrupted file crashing an app. Maybe I could have been using mdadm better? I don't remember it doing anything like that.

@nafmo
Sounds like you might find zfs useful?

@CloudyMrs
True, but I'd frame it slightly differently, the Guardian are very pro Labour. Their Unionism feels like a by product of that rather than a Union first thing.

End result is the same. So much eye rolling and cringe when they talk about Scotland on podcasts -- with the exception of John Harris, who seems to get it.

@Remittancegirl @Indyposterboy

If you've ever considered growing vegetables but never gotten around to it now would be a good time to start, even if it's just potatoes in pots

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/10/uk-food-production-down-record-rainfall-farmers

#gardening #vegetables #FoodSecurity #Climate