2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 138: Drive Failure
Google Drive’s arbitrary file limit, SMR disks probably die sooner, Western Digital’s My Cloud outage locks some people out of their data, why we don’t talk much about Veeam, and running containers as root.
Plugs
Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD and TrueNAS
News
Google Drive quietly introduced (then pulled) a file creation limit for all users
HDD average life span misses 3-year mark in study of 2,007 defective drives
Users fume after My Cloud network breach locks them out of their data
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We were asked about running containers as root.
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