These are internal drives connected to a desktop PSU wired to a USB interface to connect to the laptop.

Haha, yeah. It does make me wonder whether I should bin the whole TrueNAS approach entirely. It seems like a tremendous faff when I could just have the files mirrored to another disk as a backup.

The hard disks are on a separate power supply. The TrueNAS software is running on an old laptop so it effectively has UPS protection.

Yeah, another vote for Caddy. I’ve run nginx as a reverse proxy before and it wasn’t too bad, but Caddy is even easier. Needs naff-all resources too. My ProxMox VM for it has 256 MB of RAM!

Which logs specifically should I be checking?

zpool doesn’t see any pools to import. The system does see the disks but I’m not sure why the disks aren’t being checked for pools.

I’ll give it a shot. I was asking here in case it was a common thing that everyone else knows about (i.e. “Oh you’re running TrueNAS without a UPS? That’s a non starter, everyone knows that”.

Is there anything we can do to push the needle back? I’m so sick of this authoritarian bullshit.

It seems to either be completely fine and a power cycle makes no difference - or it loses the whole structure. I don’t know how I’m supposed to pull the disks back in. It doesn’t seem to detect that they’re already setup as part of a pool.

The pool I’ve created doesn’t vanish but it seems my only option for it is “manage devices” which takes me to the “Add VDEVs to the Pool” menu where my three disks show up as unassigned. The only presented option seems to be to wipe them in order to add them back to the pool.

Trying to search for this stuff doesn’t seem to give me anything useful. I don’t know what the intended behaviour is and what it is that I’m doing wrong. I would expect what should happen is that the disks come back online and get automatically added back to the pool again but no, apparently not?

I mostly find the framing tiresome. It’s a sort of learned helplessness.

It’s trying to frame life as something one is only “correctly” handling if everything is planned out in the tiniest detail. Anyone trying to do anything of the slightest complexity knows that’s not a good way to manage tasks.

Of course, if one goes through life imagining that what one should be doing is being an adult with a plan of infinite complexity and anything less is “pretending” (or “winging it”, or whatever) then it’s easy to keep the infantilising personal narrative going. “I’m not a real grown-up” and shit like that.

Defining a “real grown up” as a hyper-competent person found only in fiction or through the eyes of a young child then yeah, we’re all making it up as we go. But given that’s a bloody stupid standard, I think we can all be a little nicer to ourselves.

I’d argue that a great many people know what they’re doing but a fuck-tonne of them don’t know how to give themselves the credit they deserve.

It’s like they’re waiting for some mystical uber adult to give them a certificate saying they’re competent enough to trust their own judgement.

What is it people think “knowing what you’re doing” entails?

Most of what we do day to day is not new in terms of the human experience. We eat, sleep, work, socialise, raise our children, etc… Most people manage this, usually through a combination of learning from others and their own mistakes. Are a lot of people just not able to acknowledge their own competence at these things?

Synecdoche, New York

Metacognition and usage of an inner monologue have nothing to do with each other. I don’t need to talk myself through things to conceptualise.

The joke doesn’t really work if you look too closely.

Doesn’t sound very secret.

We’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!

My first is due in a couple of months and I’m pleased to report that parking is free at our local hospital!

UK perspective: they weren’t already?

Tell that to my tattoo.

I honestly just find the extra layers to make it harder for me to know what my code is doing. I’d rather set proper CSS margin-bottom than mb-1. Having to learn the Bootstrap way of doing things when I already know the traditional way mostly feels like a waste of my time. It’s not, but it’s hard to stay engaged when I can already do a thing in a more standardised way.

Kind of like a site I’ve been stripping the jQuery out of. You don’t need that to show/hide a couple of form fields, FFS. Or the special JS library for doing pop overs. Come on, there’s three fields on the entire website that use them, just use HTML5 popovers.

I imagine Bootstrap is probably more useful for stuff where more complex layouts are needed, or when a site needs to be more responsive to different browser shapes (as in desktop vs. various mobile form factors).

I had to look it up myself - so I learned about it too!