• Back up everything on the current volume, destroy it, and create a 5-drive RAID-Z from scratch
• Buy another 2TB drive, create a new vdev out of the 3 new drives, and add it to the zpool

Now, at first, the second option doesn’t sound too bad – until you realize that you’ve basically created a false RAID-Z2 (RAID-6), since you’ve got 2 parity disks.  It’s false because if 2 disks fail in the same vdev, you’re cooked, but you could lose one in each and be fine.  Also, you’re wasting money on an extra disk when you’re a simple home user who wants to scale in small parts.

Neither of these issues are a problem for larger deployments – they generally already have disk space for backups (or already have all the data backed up in the first place), or are building the entire thing from scratch to store future data.  Buying extra disks isn’t a problem – they have money.  Home users do not.

So, until this is possible, I’ll be using mdadm or a similar solution on OpenFiler or another Linux-based OS.  This is a real shame; I really wanted to start using OpenIndiana.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like if no one ever upgraded to Web 2.0? I mean, really, what have we gained. Here’s a list of things that I personally find really stupid about the phenomenon:

Lists

I think there’s a list for everything now. Everyone wants to be David Letterman. Here’s a lists of lists of things, found on Digg by searching for “10 things”:

• Top 10 Things Americans Want but Can’t Have
• Procrastination: Ten Things To Know
• Things Everyone in IT Should Know
• Things No One Gives Microsoft Credit For (But Should)
• 16 Names Of Things You Never Knew Had Names
• Things Republicans want you to forget

Now, lists are all fine and dandy, but nowadays, most lists people put up are simply a ploy to get traffic, show more ads, and make money. Now, I have no problem with this at all – profits are the best incentive. But, really, it’s getting a little insane. Instead of lists, which are easy to skim, why not hide all your points in some real writing? Many of my friends and I, who are internet addicts, have realized that our reading speed and comprehension have suffered over the years due to the way we surf, which is skimming everything for that small chunk of information you want.

Social Bookmarking Icon Diarrhea

This picture says it all:

Really Big RSS Feed Images

Giant Footers

Here’s one:

Nobody looks at the bottom of your site. Sorry.

Lame Layouts

How to waste 2/3 of the screen

How to waste 3/4 of the screen

root@rofl:/var/games/angband/save# ls -al
total 60
d---rwx--- 2 root games  4096 2008-01-01 23:57 .
drwxr-sr-x 9 root games  4096 2007-12-31 16:18 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 hank games 45651 2008-01-01 23:57 1000.Hank
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root games    47 2006-11-13 01:20 delete.me

The inside of 1000.Hank is complete binary gibberish, but at least I can back it up now and move it between computers. This is so encouraging me to cheat. To find out more about angband, read this article.

Oh! I know! Maybe its that I can’t read the article because of an ad!! Good work, CNN!

Original Story. You might have to refresh a few times. This is because of oversize flash advertisements. Here is a short flash video of my experience.

Gel-filled bras and similar prosthetics – Gel-filled bras may be worn through security screening and aboard aircraft.

Wow, awesome. I wonder why this is. Couldn’t a terrorist just sport some bomb boobs? I mean, could a convincing transvestite take down an aircraft? Why is this allowed and not my water bottle?