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The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost. What happened # is my replica pool — a 10.9T mirror (2x 12TB) that receives syncoid snapshots from. One side of the mirror, a Seagate Exos (serial,), went FAULTED with 14 read + 22 checksum errors. The IronWolf mirror side carried the pool —. ZFS redundancy did exactly its job. The difference from last time # Last failure: no monitoring, found out by accident months later, desktop died. This failure: SigNoz + node-exporter’s ZFS collector → → alert rule → Gotify → my phone. The gotify notification fired before I knew anything was wrong. Diagnosis # Before or replace — check SMART. already scrapes all disks into SigNoz, so I didn’t even need sudo: raw = 3024 and counting value/worst still 100 but raw errors climbing SMART overall: still PASS (SMART’s overall bit is conservative until threshold) 3k+ remapped sectors is a platter going bad — not a cable blip. V…

beware the growth of sin… harboring it leads to worse consequences for us and others. Cain’s initial sin is left ambiguous but his response to his sin being called out by the Lord shows the trajectory of his life

Marvel at God’s patience. Cain could’ve heeded the Lord’s warnings, it would’ve been right.

The Fall is worthy of grieving. The story in the Bible explains the state of humanity, and I think we can grieve humanity’s state just via observation today. But the beauty of the Gospel of Jesus Christ is that with grieving and mourning there is hope and redemption

I talked with my oldest daughter about silliness and wrecklessness today. She and her sister were playing too rough at bedtime and the younger slapped the older one pretty hard. It wasn’t malicious, they’re 4 and 6, they were just being silly but without respect for reality, they were tired, and have been tired for a while (thus the bedtime) and in their silliness and tiredness their actions became wrekless. This is what I explained to her, and she paused and said “Dad, what is wreckless?” and oh man did my heart melt… I’m so proud of her for asking that question, and feeling comfortable to do so in the middle of our conversation made me feel good as her dad.

On the Fall # The consequences of the fall were immediate and great: shame (humans recognize their nakedness and cover up) separation (humans are banished from Paradise/Eden) When I have nothing to hide, and I’m completing my work both at home and my job to a degree that I’m satisfied with results, then shame and anxiety seem so small. God gives grace to people, and he offered grace in the beginning as one of his responses to sin. I can’t help but recognize the wrestle with the reality of the Fall, and I don’t mean the state of human today - I think we’re clearly fallen. But I mean the record in Genesis 3… I think Genesis 1-11 tells a story to explain human history but doesn’t necessarily give us a play-by-play transcription of that history. So I need to personally be careful in how much analysis I do of the physical reality of Genesis 3 and be sure to filter my perception of it through the lens of the rest of the Bible. Jesus is the snake-crusher promised in 3:9, and he offers grace e…