Hacker News: traches

New comment by traches in "How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)"

traches — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:41:04 +0000

ZFS handles drive failures more robustly than anything else. There's a reason synology uses mdadm under BTRFS instead of the built-in BTRFS RAID features, and mdadm operates at the device level. That means that to replace a drive, mdadm has to rebuild the entire drive while zfs will only rebuild what's actually in use.

> Also, any guide like this that doesn’t guide you through “disk 3 failed, this is how you safely replace it” is imho incomplete, even if it doesn’t go through telling you how you know a disk has failed.

`zpool replace my_pool disk3 newdisk`

New comment by traches in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

traches — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:20:31 +0000

I've been on the internet since the 90s and this might be the worst opinion I've ever encountered.

New comment by traches in "The least amount of CSS for a decent looking site (2023)"

traches — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:18:16 +0000

If your website requires a browser extension to be nicely readable you are doing it wrong

New comment by traches in "The principles of database design, or, the Truth is out there"

traches — Mon, 19 May 2025 09:30:36 +0000

Ohhhhh absolutely not, thank you. I want my IDs to have absolutely no meaning whatsoever.

New comment by traches in "Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?"

traches — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:47:31 +0000

My sway, terminal, neovim setup is so goddamn /comfy/ I love it