There’s nothing ironic here, just you putting your fingers in your ears to ignore reality, like most irresponsible pet owners do.

Just saw your edit, which is hilarious to add when your cat thought it was literally in danger outside, by your own description. That is why people are bringing it up here specifically, and what you continue to fail to see.

“Stick to keeping your cats healthy and safe, we’ll let our cats get terrified, be in danger, and then post online when I finally notice that they might have been in danger like it’s some big mystery.”

They’re willfully ignorant and will continue to be an irresponsible pet owner, unfortunately for their cats and the local environment.

You just had the discussion and made it clear that for some reason, you think cats are humans and can fully think for themselves. You think that they can’t catch FIV, get hit by cars, etc. You also don’t care about your local bird population. Your ignorance is going to hurt something outside, whether it’s your cat, another cat, or just the birds in your backyard. It’s very American of you to think this way and be so selfish.

Your cats are unable to logically decide not to, they do not have human brains nor the knowledge of unseen dangers outdoors.

Yep, exactly. And when you let your cats roam free, it also has a cyclical effect where it brings more cats to the area. Cats are very territorial, especially outdoors, and tomcats are especially driven to expand their range and territory. It’s super selfish to allow your cats outdoors in just about every way.

Do non American cats not contract FIV, get hit by cars, destroy the local bird populations, and have lower lifespans than indoor cats?

This isn’t about America, as much as you & OP want to make it seem like. It’s about doing the right thing for your pets.

“everything I disagree with is American”

The same reason they let the cat roam free: they didn’t give a shit.

Also, the FIV vaccines are not 100% effective, in fact they’re lower than most vaccines, at around 55-60%. So, even if you get your cat the FIV vaccine, if you let them outdoors, you’re putting them at risk of contracting it.

You’re fully ignorant of actual facts, I see. Cats are not humans, they’re fully domesticated animals that are completely happy living indoors.

Your cats are likely going to get hurt or worse, die because of your ignorance. This very post is proof of that. This isn’t paranoia, it’s just you being ignorant. It’s funny that you bring up being American, because your actions are exactly that of the average, ignorant, selfish American. Your cat was in danger that night, and you can’t even acknowledge that you allowed that to happen. Worse, you’re doubling down on enabling it, just like most conservative Americans would do.

My neighbor from a few years ago let their cat roam our tiny street and he got FIV, and likely also spread it.

Further, not only is it a risk for your cat, it’s a risk to the environment. They are responsible for the extinction of multiple bird species.

You really think that your cat is exempt from the studies showing outdoor cats have much lower lifespans? It’s not, and it’s proven by this post. Whatever scared them was probably trying to harm them (probably a stray tomcat, like my neighbors’ FIV+ one. FIV is spread through all bodily fluids, even their saliva through bites that you may not be able to easily see under their fur).

I have three indoor only cats that live very healthy, happy, and danger-free lives. They have never been in the danger that yours was probably in.

Raid 10 is and interesting idea for sure. It would certainly help with write speeds, although if I want to utilize the “self-healing” of ZFS, I’d need to do two (separately striped) vdevs that mirror each other to get the equivalent to RAID10, right?

I should have mentioned that I was (and still am) using XFS for my primary pool. XFS has been great, I was just hoping for a solution which would make it so I don’t have to hit my backups unless absolutely necessary (such as full array loss, for example). ZFS’ data corruption protection is very intriguing, it’s mostly the rebuild time and write speed that is making me think about doing something else.

Would this just be to help with the rebuild time? Raid10 in ZFS is an interesting idea, which would also require two mirrors and striping.

Yeah, I’m leaning towards ZFS for sure after reading about btrfs’ past…

Interesting idea.

Absolutely, 4-3-2 is what I use now! MDisc backups have been great.

I’m very aware and have full 4-3-2 backups already. I’m also not interested in a standard raid. Thanks though! It’s always good to mention that raid is not a backup. I simply want to add more protection from disk corruption (not necessarily full failure) so that I don’t need to recover from backups unless I absolutely must. A benefit would also be resolving corruption before I even notice it.

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