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Longhorn Read-Only Mounts: Detection, Recovery, and Closing the Silent Failure Window
· 10 min read · homelab

Longhorn Read-Only Mounts: Detection, Recovery, and Closing the Silent Failure Window

A Longhorn volume can report Healthy while the filesystem inside your pod has been read-only for hours. How to detect it, recover it, and alert on it.

longhornkubernetesstoragemonitoringprometheushomelab
Backing Up Qdrant Snapshots Correctly: From emptyDir to NFS Persistent Backups
· 12 min read · infrastructure

Backing Up Qdrant Snapshots Correctly: From emptyDir to NFS Persistent Backups

Qdrant snapshots on emptyDir vanish on restart, and snapshots on the data PVC die with the disk. Here's the NFS-backed pattern that survives both.

qdrantkubernetesbackupsnfsstoragevector-databases
Longhorn Volume Health: The Gap Between 'Healthy' and Actually Working
· 6 min read · kubernetes

Longhorn Volume Health: The Gap Between 'Healthy' and Actually Working

Stop trusting the Longhorn UI blindly. Learn to monitor replication, fix stale mounts, and manage snapshot bloat in production K8s storage.

kuberneteslonghornstoragebare-metalmonitoringpvc
Pod Disruption Budgets: Why kubectl drain Gets Stuck on Longhorn
· 3 min read · kubernetes

Pod Disruption Budgets: Why kubectl drain Gets Stuck on Longhorn

Pod Disruption Budgets can block kubectl drain on Longhorn. Here's how to avoid it.

kuberneteslonghornpod-disruption-budgetsnode-drainstorage
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