Ceph For The Win?
One of my Ceph nodes had started acting up. It would stop responding, and I could get no network traffic to it.
It is a truly headless server. My only input was the power button. Which sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t.
After the third time the node went offline, I put a monitor on the node and got to see it die.
It limped along for a few more days before I remembered I had hot-swappable cabinets and moved the large drives to a different node.
Ceph is now rebalancing the cluster by moving 24+ terabytes around. It should finish in a couple more days. The cool factor is that nothing that depends on the Ceph cluster noticed. It all just works.
I would be replacing the dead node, but other work is interfering.
New Work
I’m in the process of bringing on a new client. It has been an interesting 48 hours. My first task has me busy for the next 4 days, if their networking team can get their network configured correctly.
They depend on Linux for several servers but have had nobody with Linux skills in their IT department for many years. Troglodite to the rescue.
I love this stuff. Doing emergency fixes faster than most other people can even evaluate the problem is where I shine.
Democrats AWOL
In a move that reminds me of pickup baseball games of my youth, the Dems of Texas were losing, so they kicked sand on the plate, grabbed the ball and bat, and took off for the hills.
Being Dems, this wasn’t “I’m taking my ball and bat and going home.” No, it was “I’m stealing your ball and bat and taking off with them.”
The governors of New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, and other Democratic strongholds are threatening to redistrict to remove Republican districts.
This would be a real threat, except that these states already did it. There are no Republican representatives from Massachusetts.
Ebay is an illness
So there are three or four planes you need for hand processing wood.
You require a smoothing plane, a Stanley #4. You require a jack plane, a Stanley #5. You require a jointer, a Stanley #7. And you should have a fore plane, a Stanley #5 with a wide mouth and specially shaped iron.
- Veritas #4: $290.00
- Veritas #5: $389.00
- Veritas #7: $459.00
- Veritas #6 Fore plan: $346
I’m not about to add those up. I’m lucky in that I already owned the #5 and #7.
eBay has Stanley #4s for around $50 plus shipping. Stanley #5s are going for $25 to $50. #7s are a bit more, in the $70 to $125 range.
Wooden planes are even cheaper.
I need to stop spending any time on eBay.
Diets
The weight is slowly coming off. It working for me. I just need to keep up the exercise part of the diet.
Question of the Week
What incident sticks out in your mind where you were told that there was a difficult problem and you gave the simple solution?
To give an example. I once interviewed with one of the big three automakers. My friend had gotten me the interview.
The interview went well. They explained the project I would be working on. They explained how hard the problem was that I would be working on.
I received permission to use the whiteboard and sketched out my proposed solution.
A few days later I received an apologetic phone call from the project manager. Seems that my 15-minute whiteboard session had provided them with the solution they needed. They had completed the project and the project was being shut down. The position they were going to hire me to fill was gone.
corporate worlds make mountains out of molehills often so “anylists” can justify thier job..
I can’t think of any real doozies of clusters I cured except we have one “tech” whos answer for every repair is “it needs a motor”… that also is one of his indian names- needs a motor.. he writes the report up- needs a motor. motor ordered then closes the call as service complete and theres no motor ordered!… he also claims blade changed on a saw we service and the blade I replace is dated 7-8 months old..
That car company story is a big “ouch”. If they had any integrity they would at least have paid you a few thousand dollars stipend. And I would think that a sufficiently skilled lawyer could have made trouble for them, for taking your property (an idea you described) and using it in their business without permission or compensation. That assumes of course you didn’t sign an NDA that says “anything you disclose to us becomes our property.”
It’s amusing to have a “Ceph” node that is headless, given that ceph is short for kephalos, Greek for “head”.
re: Texas dems.
The left is nothing if not predictable. When the redistricting is looking to go their way, it is perfect and no one can question it. If it looks to go against them, all of a sudden it is evil, and the only way to save democracy is to throw a monkey wrench into the works and stop it all.
Meanwhile, a few year ago in Oregon (if I remember correctly) the Republicans did the same thing, and the left thought it was perfectly OK to fine them and issue warrants. What changed here?
As usual … It’s not what’s being done but who’s doing it.
The Queen of New York has declared that redistricting to restore the balance of power would “destroy our Democracy”.
You mean that One Party Rule is democratic.
I was taught in a New York State Public School that One Party Rule was Tyranny.