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Feedback: having done your first one, I find myself wondering how the thing got into that state in the first place, and what can be done about it. That is, [Ju
by rachelbythebay 6y ago
Feedback: having done your first one, I find myself wondering how the thing got into that state in the first place, and what can be done about it. That is, [Jub be jung fperjrq hc gur crezvffvbaf/bjarefuvcf ba gur erqvf cngu] (spoilers).
Basically, this is the lowest level of "if this then that" fixing, and people need to be able to do that, but they also need to then go "we can't keep operating in this mode".
I mean, yeah, here, it's artificial for the purposes of the exercise. But, if you were to see this in real life, there would be a bunch more questions to ask and things to dig into to keep it from happening again. Randos with root? Bad script somewhere? Terrible system management stuff? RPM getting a little too frisky with how it manages certain directories?
I'm not sure how you get that part into a thing like this, though.
- hkh 6y agoGreat point! I wonder if there are things we can do to break the scenario while the user is logged in to simulate operational issues such as OOMKilled, network glitches or disk filled. That might enable a better root cause discussion during interviews