I first noticed when I couldn't update an AUR package that pointed to their Forgejo instance. It turns out there was a multi-disk failure that has caused corruption of some kind.
> So currently the situation went from bad to horrible. We did suffered from both drives actually failing which makes the situation more dangerous.
> To make things worse, as some of you know since Tuesday @muppeth has been dealing with a personal tragedy which makes the entire process of recovering for the issue that much more difficult.
> On Tuesday my father passed away. This is a critical and heavy times for me but I must divide my time between my IRL and digital family. I will do all I can to bring back the storage as soon as possible. All I can ask for is your patience.
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Truly a rough position to be in. There are times when dumping other responsibilities in a crisis is trivial but I have also found myself overly concerned with trivial matters as a way of exerting control over something.
On the tech side of thing I can't imagine offering services to people without well-tested offsite backups and a bus factor of >1. I respect what they are trying to do and hopefully they can find a more resilient way of operating in the future.
zenoprax•58m ago
> So currently the situation went from bad to horrible. We did suffered from both drives actually failing which makes the situation more dangerous.
> To make things worse, as some of you know since Tuesday @muppeth has been dealing with a personal tragedy which makes the entire process of recovering for the issue that much more difficult.
> On Tuesday my father passed away. This is a critical and heavy times for me but I must divide my time between my IRL and digital family. I will do all I can to bring back the storage as soon as possible. All I can ask for is your patience.
--
Truly a rough position to be in. There are times when dumping other responsibilities in a crisis is trivial but I have also found myself overly concerned with trivial matters as a way of exerting control over something.
On the tech side of thing I can't imagine offering services to people without well-tested offsite backups and a bus factor of >1. I respect what they are trying to do and hopefully they can find a more resilient way of operating in the future.