Six months operating an Akash providerIn May the provider missed a mandatory upgrade deadline, lost its audit attestation, and watched roughly four-fifths of its active leases disappear inside two weeks. The recovery took twenty-six days.12A1d ago · 18 min readjjozzietech.hashnode.dev
iSCSI gives you two minutesYou can have enterprise storage, a healthy host and a filesystem doing exactly what it was designed to do, and still lose a node to one network interruption. This is what a firewall racking job did toOct 22 · 7 min readjjozzietech.hashnode.dev
The storage failure that was actually an ARP raceThe Windows workload client lost its TrueNAS shares one Thursday morning. Red-X on every drive mapped to that specific server. Mappings to other storage servers on the same VLAN stayed online. Test-NeOct 15 · 15 min readjjozzietech.hashnode.dev
Four lines of patched JavaScript, and the router VM that deleted themTwo small patches to a dependency file called ssdp.js. Four lines of changed JavaScript, total. They kept the fleet's nodes reachable from the internet, and they were the reason every incident on the Oct 1 · 13 min readjjozzietech.hashnode.dev
Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storageThe plan was a network change with a storage flavour. Move a Windows workload and two TrueNAS servers off the legacy flat network and onto the new dual-TOR fabric on the workload VLAN. Three cutovers.Sep 24 · 16 min readjjozzietech.hashnode.dev
