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 30: Hot storage
The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more.
News
OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg
OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder
OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction
Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze
In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router
Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community
FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree
Feedback
Mitigating bitrot with checksums, and why flash isn’t any good as cold storage.
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Lernard
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