{"id":40672,"date":"2023-09-18T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T19:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40672"},"modified":"2023-09-18T17:12:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T21:12:24","slug":"toyota-factory-shutdowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/18\/toyota-factory-shutdowns\/","title":{"rendered":"Toyota Factory Shutdowns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/sep\/06\/toyota-blames-factory-shutdown-in-japan-on-insufficient-disk-space\">Justin McCurry<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37403566\">Hacker<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37303569\">News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/sep\/06\/toyota-blames-factory-shutdown-in-japan-on-insufficient-disk-space\"><p>The Japanese carmaker said the stoppage on 29 August at all 14 of its domestic plants occurred after servers that process orders for vehicle parts broke down following a maintenance procedure carried out the previous day.<\/p><p>During this operation, &ldquo;data that had accumulated in the database was deleted and organised, and an error occurred due to insufficient disk space, causing the system to stop&rdquo;, Toyota said on Wednesday.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Toyota had to shut down the same 14 factories for a day in February last year when one of its suppliers said one of its file servers had been infected with a virus, raising questions about the cybersecurity of Japan&rsquo;s supply chains.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/toyota-shut-down-14-factories-due-to-insufficient-disk-space\">Andrew E. Freedman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/toyota-shut-down-14-factories-due-to-insufficient-disk-space\"><p>Moral of the story: Always keep some extra storage space on hand for anything mission-critical, <em>especially<\/em> if you&rsquo;re a massive company that requires software that can be timed to exact specifications in order to build complicated machines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/04\/southwest-airlines-and-technical-debt\/\">Southwest Airlines and Technical Debt<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/05\/diskspace-tool-to-report-apfs-free-space\/\">diskspace Tool to Report APFS Free Space<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justin McCurry (via Hacker News): The Japanese carmaker said the stoppage on 29 August at all 14 of its domestic plants occurred after servers that process orders for vehicle parts broke down following a maintenance procedure carried out the previous day.During this operation, &ldquo;data that had accumulated in the database was deleted and organised, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-09-18T19:18:52Z","apple_news_api_id":"fcd55356-09bb-43c5-bec0-50466439531a","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-09-18T21:12:26Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A_NVTVgm7Q8W-wFBGZDlTGg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1167,504,174],"class_list":["post-40672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-car","tag-malware","tag-storage"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40672"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40681,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40672\/revisions\/40681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}