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metrics-bot

On Thursday during the metrics team meeting we decided to rename AtlasBot to metrics-bot to better fit the naming scheme of the team’s other projects.

It would appear that there has been interest in the bot and that it’s something that people want.

The JavaDoc has now moved to a new location, a git repository has been created and there is a new Trac component to organise the metrics-bot todo list.

I’ve planning to be able to push the sources for metrics-bot to the git repository early next week. I just need to do one more pass to make sure there’s no Twitter credentials left in it, and then I’ll be able to close #23933 too.

Yubikey 4

Today my new Yubikey arrived, a Yubikey 4. There’s a whole load of features packed into the YubiKey, but the only feature I really use is the OpenPGP applet which emulates an OpenPGP smartcard.

This is the only device that is trusted to see my private GnuPG keys at the points where I use them. It helps to keep track of where my keys are, as they can only be in a single place.

Replacing a hard drive

I’ve got a hard drive in a zpool that is starting to show some SMART errors. I’d really like to replace it, but unfortunately it’s in a zpool that is configured to stripe and not mirror. I do not have enough SATA ports or disks to convert it to stripe+mirror.

Currently, it’s not possible to remove a drive from a striped zpool. You have to destroy the pool and start again. This is really annoying.

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