This is not a ZFS specific post, but wanted to seek out the opinions of hive minds as to whether or not I should replace the drive before it actual fails and borks my pool. … [142649.952676] sd 6:0:12:0: [sdde] tag#5269 FAILED Result: hostb…
Hey all, Over years of homelabbing, I’ve built a “lab of theseus” upgrading and swapping parts piecemeal (and probably impulsively). That worked fine back when gear was dirt cheap, but today’s market has forced me to rethink my strategy and…
I recently conjured up a small script to find the newest files in a moderately sized filesystem (140GB / 53,000 files, compression=zstd) and it gave reasonable results… except for three files in widely scattered directories, all with identi…
Wanted to throw it out there, given ZFS Performance Tuning for BitTorrent - OpenZFS - Practical ZFS exists - are there any difference in approach that should be taken when using usenet to download/build binaries instead of torrents, wrt thi…
I think another solution can be to have the same hostid on both FreeBSD and Linux. eu47: zpool: Last accessed by host1 (hostid=8645113a) at Wed Jul 15 09:09:44 2026 On Linux, you can set the hostid to match your FreeBSD hostid. Most of the
I’ve seen it recommended that ZFS be given entire disks rather than just partitions, but, for Linux, I’ve also seen putting ZFS on /home recommended to simplify the booting process (and decrypt at the login manager). I would usually expect
I’ve seen it recommended that ZFS be given entire disks rather than just partitions, but, for Linux, I’ve also seen putting ZFS on /home recommended to simplify the booting process (and decrypt at the login manager). I would usually expect
Oldest CPU I’ve run ZFS on was an Intel N3530 with 4GiB of RAM. Ran fine without encryption. With encryption (LUKS), it was noticeably slower due to the CPU not having AES-NI instructions.
mercenary_sysadmin: config file starts to strongly imply that you’re only using the tool for a predefined task, rather than using it as needed ad-hoc and, potentially, for predefined tasks. I use the tool for one purpose only: automated bac…
I’m trying to set up ZFS snapshot replication with Sanoid/Syncoid using a pull architecture. Snapshots are pruned from the backup server with Sanoid. I’m considering a scenario where production is compromised, creating bogus snapshots to tr…
I’m trying to set up ZFS snapshot replication with Sanoid/Syncoid using a pull architecture. Snapshots are pruned from the backup server with Sanoid. I’m considering a scenario where production is compromised, creating bogus snapshots to tr…
It’s really good to hear that I’m unlikely to run into any “pool is toast” sort of issues! For the “once in a while” operations, I’m thinking of operations like creating datasets/mount points and setting attributes. Those are the only thing…