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I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by Retr0id »

game-of-throws wrote: post #6

You're playing with fire using RAID0. If I had data on 30 floppy drives, I'd want at least 20 of them to be parity drives.

Seems like the bitrot is kicking in already. The main JPEG appears to have bitflip errors: http://totallynormalwebsite.ddns.net/megafloppy.jpg

This is what I get, when I download the full image and convert to PNG: https://i.imgur.com/JF4wtMg.png

During the conversion (with imagemagick), I get these errors:

  convert: Corrupt JPEG data: premature end of data segment `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/403.
  convert: Corrupt JPEG data: found marker 0x74 instead of RST1 `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/403.
  convert: Corrupt JPEG data: 206 extraneous bytes before marker 0xfb `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/403.
  convert: Corrupt JPEG data: found marker 0xfb instead of RST2 `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGWarningHandler/403.
  convert: Unsupported marker type 0xfb `megafloppy.jpg' @ warning/jpeg.c/JPEGErrorHandler/345.
Looking closer, all bytes between offset 0x115C00 and 0x11F800 have been set to 0xf6, and all bytes from there until 0x11FC00 have been set to 0.

Bytes from 0x2EFC00 to 0x2F5C00 have been set to 0, followed by 0xf6's all the way until 0x2FFC00.

I'd be curious to know what failure mode(s) conjured the 0xf6's into existence.

Edit: Original version is here https://web.archive.org/web/20220715175852if_/http://totally...

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

#34

Post by fny »

anaganisk wrote: post #33

Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.

Imagine indeed. This has been suffocated already it seems. Images can't even finish loading.

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by murukesh_s »

anaganisk wrote: post #33

Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.

The blame would be on baremetal server. They would move to AWS with multi region EKS clusters and RDS with cross-region disaster recovery. And a multi-cloud strategy is also in place..

Re: I'm hosting a website on a RAID0 of 30 floppy drives

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Post by anaganisk »

fny wrote: post #34
anaganisk wrote: post #33

Imagine a floppy disk based old server surviving “Hug of deaths” while the latest react based static website hosted on Kubernetes for infinite scalability on baremetal dies in like 5 sec.

Imagine indeed. This has been suffocated already it seems. Images can't even finish loading.

It stayed alive as long it could start going black carbon, much longer than others I think.
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