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This may be a more well-known reference than I earlier thought.

I grew up watching Happy-Days.  The show was great until the episode where Fonzi jumped the shark-tank.  After that it pretty much went down-hill quickly.

Hence the term “Jumped the shark” or “Jumping the shark” has come to mean any single event that marks the point where something degenerates into crap.

My VMWare NFS server jumped the shark this weekend.  It was hilarious.  I had a beautifully quiet afternoon on Friday, from about 14:30 on my blackberry was quiet.  Turns out that the NFS server that I use for storage experienced an unexplained (and apparently barely logged) kernel panic and rebooted.

In the process, the 6 adapters, in what I can only guess was a techno-square-dance, all switched places and lost their bonding configuration.

All went south, right in the middle of one of my busiest travel weeks as far as work goes.  So my wife, god bless her, earned her stripes this weekend as I walked her through ‘ifconfig eth0 10.1.1.10′ and ‘ping 10.1.1.254′ etc.  trying to figure out what happened.

Still don’t know.  But with everything down (including this site) my first priority was to get it all back online, troubleshoot later.  (When my desktop goes down I know why, I have an inquisitive 3 year old with a fetish for power-buttons), but the server power buttons are protected by a key – for that very purpose.

So I ordered a bunch of 146G drives for the hosts, and I’m going to move criticial apps back to internal storage until I figure out what in the hell happened and how to fix it.  It might give me an opportunity to eval. some new FC Target toys I’ve been thinking about.

Who knows.  No more shark-jumping though.