@prologic this happened. Mentions often break. 😩

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@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hehehehe, I was trying to mention dbucklin but Yarn is broken.

I vote for jenny too. It is pretty cool. Even more so if you are a mutt’s fan!

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com Hi there! Well, I got your message. Let me know if you have gotten mine.

@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com further test. It seems Yarn is very finicky.

Let’s see if this works, shall we? 😊

@someone@www.davebucklin.com testing…

And that’s… bad, right @prologic?

So, started following https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt, but there is no way to interact with him. Mentions will never come out right.

@bender@twtxt.net Ha, we both looked it up at once. You win.

@bender Synology uses single-volume Btrfs on software RAID, which seems to be pretty solid in my research but that’s less flexible than ZFS. https://kb.synology.com/en-us/DSM/tutorial/What_was_the_RAID_implementation_for_Btrfs_File_System_on_SynologyNAS

Ha! Found it:

Due to the Btrfs RAID issues, Synology chose Linux RAID. Based on the diagram below, Synology has implemented the layers in between the file systems and disks to ensure that Synology has full control to achieve the highest stability.

@mckinley I am curious now, though. Doesn’t Synology use RAID Btrfs? How in the world do they do it? Researching…

@bender@twtxt.net Exactly. It’s just not an option with warnings like that all over the place. Some people have had success, but I’m not risking it. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20200627032414.GX10769@hungrycats.org/

@mckinley “Warning: The RAID 5 and RAID 6 modes of Btrfs are fatally flawed, and should not be used for “anything but testing with throw-away data.” – Yikes!. Gulp.

@prologic ZFS is fine but it’s out-of-tree and extremely inflexible. If Btrfs RAID5/6 was reliable it would be fantastic. Add and remove drives at will, mix different sizes. I hear it’s mostly okay as long as you mirror the metadata (RAID1), scrub frequently, and don’t hammer it with too many random reads and writes. However, there are serious performance penalties when running scrubs on the full array and random reads and writes are the entire purpose of a filesystem.

Bcachefs has similar features (but not all of them, like sending/receiving) and it doesn’t have the giant scary warnings in the documentation. I hear it’s kind of slow and it was only merged into the kernel in version 6.7. I wouldn’t really trust it with my data.

I bought a couple more hard drives recently and I’m trying to figure out how I’m going to allocate them before badblocks completes. I have a few days to decide. :)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de what password manager do you use on the CLI? Is it pass?

@bender There’s stagit which generates static HTML files

@prologic I remember running yarnd for testing on a couple of different occasions and both times I found all the required command line options to be annoying. If I remember correctly, running it with missing options would only tell you the first one that was missing and you’d have to keep running it and adding that option before it would work.

This was a couple of years ago, so I don’t know if anything’s changed since then. It’s really not a big problem, because it would be run with some kind of preset command line (systemd service, container entrypoint) in a production environment.

@bender I avoid install scripts like the plague. This isn’t Windows and they’re usually poorly written. I think it’s better to prioritize native packages (or at least AUR, MPR, etc) and container images.

@prologic That’s good advice. I don’t open any ports to the Internet if I can possibly avoid it. Everything is on Wireguard, even stuff that doesn’t really need to be. It’s super easy to set up on other people’s computers, too. Even on Windows.

@prologic that’s some service!

@prologic I remember when I first ran Yarn on arrakis, it was a mess. Remember I had to start it again from scratch? If I were to run Yarn today, I will have to ask you what -u to use, if I am going to run a web server on it (say, Caddy), and what to do to keep the huge cache Xuu and I like. LOL. Granted, I could figure it out myself after some trial and error too.

To make Yarn install easier? An installer script that would prompt for the settings, generate config, and install the systemd, because, whether we like it or not, the biggest Linux distros around use it.

@prologic I don’t see how OP will see the replies. Does Yarn proxies to Gemini?