30-APR-2025

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I’ven’t made any progress on the above, and have justified what may otherwise be described as laziness as an impromptu experiment in seeing how long it takes bitrot or force majeure to break something; turns out the latter won. Some work on the powerlines down the street yeilded a brownout, which tripped my NAS into a strange state which required some effort to recover. This left the netboot image mounts in a state of corruption, it appears, and my main VM host also felt the sting, leading to a situation where all my VMs aren’t available.

This was at least somewhat expected, partly because even though I have a rackmount UPS for the servers I haven’t installed it because it requires also installing some electrical and I simply haven’t had the gumption. In any case, the unfortunate situation is that the netboot apparatus to generate new images is also broken, so I need to either fix what’s there or convert to something new, neither of which are super exciting, but at least the latter means I’ll have some time to play with iSCSI, which appeals to me as a potentially interesting alternative to the NFS route I had planned. There is also tvix to consider.

At the moment, the state is that BTG and DOP both can’t boot up; but everything else is running alright. Rewriting the netboot to avoid the image size issue will also make netboot-everything viable again, which will be nice for automating VM creation, which in turn should make moving services to k8s much simpler.

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What was originally a small issue has grown. In attempting to untangle things, I needed to get my laptop, Archimedes, updated and working, however he is now crashing on update, which is a new thing for me in Nix world. I think he might just need a bit of cleaning, but I’m getting all my stuff committed and pushed before continuing.

The fun never really stops.