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.
Debian has generally always had, as a rule, “sane defaults” and “no surprises”. This was completely shattered for me when Vim decided to hijack the mouse from my terminal and break all copy/paste functionality. This has occured since the release of Debian 9. I expect for my terminal to behave consistently, and this is broken every time I log in to a Debian 9 system where I have not configured Vim to disable this functionality.
When working with datasets from PATHspider it’s very easy to max out your memory. When running an analysis recently, I found my computer locking up and generally being unresponsive. This new machine should be able to cope so this was odd, and then I realised that I was running two jupyter notebooks and the other had previously loaded all the data into memory, so this second one pushed me into swap.