Thanks! I’ll try with nofail
and see if the lockups stop!
Another thing to look out for: SDCards or USB flash drives that might randomly fail to “spin up” and hang, unplugging those helps.
Honestly, that could be it now that you mention it… I have had for a while an external hard drive plugged in that I’ve used for some backups.
100%
JSON is not the optimal solution for either humans nor for machines… it’s a compromise in-between that is more complex to parse than most binary alternatives (and even some text-based ones, if the data can be represented in CSV tables for example), while also often requiring post-processing through beautifiers and similar to be able to visualize it cleanly for humans.
There are situations where it’s the format that makes the most sense… like in the web, where you are already working with javascript anyway. But it’s not a golden bullet to use everywhere.