I just love power outages, they just make my day!

Got a voicemail from Duke Power this morning, notifying me that power would be out from 10:00 -> 17:00 today.  I then receive emails and messages from apcupsd at around 11:00, letting me know that my systems are powering down, which is pretty nice.  At least my LVM array and data disk were unmounted cleanly, since they're basially the only two filesystems I care about.

#RPI then helped assuage my fears of having a stinky refrigerator upon returning home.  I did resolve to throw out milk that probably was overdue anyway :)

In the afternoon, I do a df on dax without thinking.  dax, even though it's remote, mounts the LVM array over some VPN connectivity.  I start receiving kernel messages relating to unreachable NFS mounts, as expected.  I then stupidly try to umount -f the filesystem, vaguely remembering that it worked once FreeBSD.  Well, I must have been thinking of some other Unix variant, because two or three umount -f's caused all disk I/O to hang.  Serial console wouldn't respond either, but I could telnet into Quagga's ospfd just fine.  (When I did a "wri mem" it hung, of course)  After all routing to the box dropped due to a hung ospfd, I power cycled it.  Yay for Voxel providing this functionality via the web console.

Anyway... I think I'll rebuild world tonight, just so I have an excuse to reboot the bot cleanly, for once.  Bah.

In other news, after taking a pretty lame (and picky) test in the morning, I am now JNCIS-FWV certified.  This means that I can probably setup a little blue box to protect your network from evil.

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