Stakes bigger than life: fixing ext4 under pressure
Stakes bigger than life: fixing ext4 under pressureLast September, we've had an unplanned reboot on sakamoto (one of my servers - likely the one serving you this page). This in itself isn't that big of a deal, but the chaos that ensued afterwards got weird really quickly.
As a preface, the relevant parts of sakamoto currently work more or less like this:
Alpine Linux on host
/ on a SATA SSD, ext4 (defaults)
array of spinning rust, with ZFS (including native encryption)
"band-aid" SSD LUKS soluti...
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