JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 27 · 21 min readThe wildcard cert saga — eight days from expiry, three failed attempts, one flagCert-expiry monitoring is one of those systems that runs quietly for months and then, suddenly, starts asking for your attention with growing volume. On the Akash provider running out of the Sydney ra10
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 20 · 14 min readThe error pointed at the GPU. The culprit was the HBA. — a Proxmox passthrough recoveryThe plan looked textbook. PCIe passthrough an NVIDIA RTX A4000 from a Proxmox 8 host into an Ubuntu 24.04 VM, giving a Filecoin sealing worker direct GPU access for the compute phases that need it. VT00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 13 · 12 min readRecovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single diskThe same outage that suspended the first pool also took down a second pool on the same box in a different, harder way. That's the piece the suspended-pool recovery closed by pointing at. This is that 00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 9 min readAfter a TrueNAS ISO reinstall — the two things that broke that no one warned me aboutThe TrueNAS SCALE machine that runs my SMB shares was in trouble. Windows clients had stopped seeing the shares reliably — intermittent at first, then completely. When I dropped to the shell to check,00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 30 · 17 min readA Kava validator on my existing stack — how the plan came together, and what the second chain will do differentlyThe plan didn't start at Kava. It started at the Cosmos Hub, because the flagship chain is where you go if you're not sure where to go. The Cosmos Hub's active set — the top validators eligible for bl00
