Geek question: What is the appropriate profanity to use when one discovers that the “best practices” use of a particular piece of file storage gear is to leave “at least 20%” of it free, or else “MAJOR PROBLEMS” will occur? I couldn’t decide, so I just used all of my favorites. “MAJOR PROBLEMS” apparently includes total system crashes.<\/p>\n
I mean, seriously. If it just doesn’t f-ing work beyond 80%, then don’t f-ing show me that f-ing space as available. Okay? Is that so hard? <\/p>\n
Anyway, I got the damn thing working again<\/em> after it crashed again, since the user who had filled her entire allotted space went ahead and resumed work, like we told her to. Quotas? Oh don’t be silly. Your puny quotas can’t protect you. We have a hybrid “script to check on it” and “scare the users silly” approach, which ought to hold while I beat an apology and a patch out of the vendor<\/a> for their crappy product<\/a>.<\/p>\n Blah blah, 120TB of storage back online, blah blah, 300MB \/ sec transfer rates. blah blah.<\/p>\n Time to go get on a plane, again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Geek question: What is the appropriate profanity to use when one discovers that the “best practices” use of a particular piece of file storage gear is to leave “at least 20%” of it free, or else “MAJOR PROBLEMS” will occur? I couldn’t decide, so I just used all of my favorites. “MAJOR PROBLEMS” apparently includes . . . → Read More: Disks, and arrays thereof.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}