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 87: Unplanned Obsolescence
Yet another IoT company abandons its customers, ridiculous “hard drives”, Postrges with containers, and cloud storage that isn’t quite as good as it sounds. With guest host Alex Kretzschmar from the Self-Hosted podcast.
Plugs
Building Your Own FreeBSD-based NAS with ZFS
News
Insteon looks dead—just like its users’ smart homes
Feedback
Harder Drive: Hard drives we didn’t want or need
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We were asked about ZFS and multipath, and running Postgres with containers.
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