On Thu, 20 Dec 2018 at 14:25, Ben Harris ben@tilde.team wrote:
hey ~teammates,
there has been a bit of discussion on irc about this, but the main limiting factor that we've been running into here on ~team is the disk space.
this machine has two 250gb ssd disks that were autoconfigured into raid 1 by the default installer image. i originally missed this step during setup (the option to reconfigure disks with the hetzner-specific settings).
since all user data is already backed up hourly, i'm fairly comfortable switching off the redundancy of raid 1. this would involve copying / to a temporary machine that i plan on renting short-term as a staging ground, reinstalling with the hetzner installer, then copying / back onto the same machine, but with the disks reconfigured as raid 0 - up to 500 gb!
since this will inevitably incur some downtime, i wanted to reach out and make sure that this is something that we want to see happen and also check if there are any times that this should *not* be performed.
I'm really glad tilde.team has raid 1 redundancy. Hourly backups are great, but if the disk fails (which it will, in 3-5 years), then there will be unscheduled down time and the need to get hetzner to install a new disk and copy from the latest fully-intact hourly backup.
My suggestion would be to have a tilde.team referendum (a program registered on "tilde" for voting should suffice), and set a minimum participation level and percentage of votes required for the issue to pass. This will also set the precedent for how governance issues should be handled in the future.
holler here on the list or on irc if you have any thoughts, concerns, or other time constraints that i should be aware of.
thanks! ~ben _______________________________________________ tildeteam mailing list -- tildeteam@lists.tildeverse.org https://lists.tildeverse.org/hyperkitty/list/tildeteam@lists.tildeverse.org/... to unsubscribe send an email to tildeteam-leave@lists.tildeverse.org