“Let's talk about a hypothetical public-facing service”

<i>&gt; You have a moment where you envision the future of virtualized storage and think about how great it will be when storage is nearly free and outsourceable and you can stop buying disks from Amazon every few months</i><p>The future is now! Instead of you sending money to Amazon and them sending you disks, they keep the disks and you send them the money anyway.<p>Progress! :-D

<i>...Extremely Massive Corporation...</i><p>I knew EMC storage was utter shit when, upon attempting to create a new RAID group, I realized that the configuration tool&#x27;s default was to stripe across drives <i>within a shelf</i>, not to create stripes that <i>span shelves</i>.<p>Worse, to create the more fault-tolerant, shelf-spanning RAID volumes, one must manually add drives, one by one to the array, in a process that involves about 44 (slight hyperbole) clicks per disk.<p>And then there was the fact that the configuration tool was Windows-only.<p>Yeah, screw those guys.

Got a good chuckle. Such is life in IT. Gotta admit I missed the &quot;Extremely Massive Corporation&quot; hint.

I was hoping they would stay offline. It&#x27;s really disappointing to see a good service turn into a money wringing desperation.

SourceForge has posted info about current infrastructure and service restoration activity at <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;sourceforge-infrastructure-and-service-restoration&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sourceforge.net&#x2F;blog&#x2F;sourceforge-infrastructure-and-s...</a><p>[Disclosure: I work for SourceForge]

&gt; made by an Extremely Massive Corporation who until now you&#x27;ve generally respected.<p>As usual, one&#x27;s respect for BigCompany is inversely correlated to one&#x27;s use of their products.

One can hope that if this hypothetical public-facing service never returns, they will ship the backup tapes to the Internet Archive instead of Honest Bob&#x27;s Social Data Mining and Market Manipulation.

&gt; It writes a full 32 bits of numeric user ID to its filesystem, but to save a few bytes it only stores 16 bits of group IDs. Some engineer probably thought that&#x27;d be enough for anybody.<p>I&#x27;m having the same issue with the number of hardlinks, which, for linux ext4 systems, is limited to 65000.

<i>&#x27;all the knowledge about how to handle this moody piece of hardware is lost, like tears in the rain&#x27;</i><p>Offworld, Roy Batty reference.

Yeah, they dealt with EMC. That&#x27;s never going to go well.<p>(continues reading)

&quot;Let&#x27;s talk about a hypothetical public-facing service that offers tools for collaboration, revision control, and software publishing.&quot; - it was hard not to notice that he was referring to SourceForge. :)