... although you probably won't notice.

Executive summary: your disks hate you

Until about 20 minutes ago, cpXXXan ran in a virtual machine on a box that I rent. That box also hosts VMs for CPANdeps, for some of my own CPAN-testing activities, and a few other things. I did it that way because it was cheap and convenient. However, over the three years that it's been running (gosh, is it really that long?!?) this has become a rather, umm, "sub-optimal" solution.

That's because the …