2.5 Admins 30: Hot storage
2.5 Admins 30: Hot storage  
Podcast: 2.5 Admins
Published On: Thu Mar 18 2021
Description: The OVH data center fire and related tales, drama with WireGuard in FreeBSD, why you should plug your flash drives in regularly, and more.   News OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder OVH founder says UPS fixed up day before blaze is early suspect as source of data centre destruction Hard lessons learned from the OVH datacenter blaze In-kernel WireGuard is on its way to FreeBSD and the pfSense router Painful Lessons Learned in Security and Community FreeBSD kernel-mode WireGuard moves forward out-of-tree   Feedback Mitigating bitrot with checksums, and why flash isn’t any good as cold storage.     Linode Simplify your cloud infrastructure with Linode’s Linux virtual machines and develop, deploy, and scale your modern applications faster and more easily. Go to linode.com/twoandahalf and get started with $100 credit.   Lernard This episode is sponsored by Lernard. Sign up at automation.link and upgrade with the code admins to get 50% off a years’ subscription to a new devops training site called Lernard.       See our contact page for ways to get in touch.