Homelab Hero · No. 011
Monday, 11 PM. Your NAS emails you: the ZFS pool is DEGRADED and one drive has dropped out of it entirely. Everything still reads and writes, a spare drive sits on the shelf beside the rack, and the family photo archive lives on that pool.
Your call:
A. Reseat the dropped drive and force it back into the pool tonight
B. Check the pool status and logs, swap in the shelf spare, and resilver
C. Shut everything down and restore last night's backup to a single drive
100 Hero Points for the right call — 200 on the Friday Boss Fight. From Issue No. 011 of The Homelab Herald. Your result lands on the next page, ready to share.