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I imagine that most of the email you get is because of problems and that
people rarely go to the effort of taking the time to commend great service.

I’m simply writing to tell you that your service has been great since
you’ve completed your updates to the systems. I can only describe it as
responsive, smooth, reliable and a great value.

In particular the addition of spamassassin has been a boon. I am now
manage more than 90% of my spam filtering on eskimo before email even
reaches my home workstation. I don’t believe a single spam has actually
made it to my in box on my home system so far this year.

Thank you for this wonderful service!

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Rick Bressler rick@the-bresslers.com

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Outage 1/3/2026

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Linux Kernel 6.18.3 had a bug that caused crashes every 2-3 hours followed by a hang.

So having exhausted 6.18.x I tried the pre-release of 6.19-rc3, the developers did not document the fact that it made substantial changes to the RAID super block, but it did. Since all of the storage on this machine is in the form of RAID arrays, this resulted in none of them being assemblable and the machine being unbootable. It said that I needed mdadm-1.45 or later, and 1.45 was the very most recent version.

I drove home, compiled 1.45, wrote to a USB thumb drive and a rescue file system on another USB, drove down, booted off the rescue, installed mdadm 1.45 but it also claimed the superblock was not usable. So much for it needing 1.45, NO version of mdadm worked.

I ended up rebuilding all the raid metadata keeping the file systems, this worked and everything is back up and we are back on 6.17.9 in spite of it not being completely stable it is less crippled than current 6.18 releases or

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