zfs

Hi I recently decided to move my FreeBSD installation onto a new drive. Since I was using ZFS, I achieved this by inserting the new drive, and then using the memstick installer on a USB drive to perform a basic install. After this I dropped to a shell, unmounted all the destination datasets...

When we encrypt the ZFS disk (whole volume), we need to enter a "passphrase". However, a "master key" is created to encrypt the data. The "passphrase" is the key to unlock the "master key". So, we can change the "passphrase" later and the "master key" remains the same but will be secured by the...

I was using freebsd-update to upgrade a box to 13.1-RELEASE. Here is the command I used to start the process... freebsd-update upgrade -r 13.1-RELEASE I followed the usual process and when prompted to reboot the first time, rebooted. Now I get this... | \ ______ ____ _____...

I'm new to FreeBSD, and right now I'm practicing installing and setting it up in VirtualBox on a Linux machine. What are the disadvantages e.g. by using UFS. So far I have used Clonezilla for Bcakup of my computers. Clonezilla cannot backup ZFS. What do I do if I choose ZFS file system. I have...

Hi FreeBSD Gurus! Please suggest me tool (ready-to-use package with webGUI for tuning and operation, would be perfect) to automate/schedule backup (whole ZFS drive or part of it) on the fly to cloud drive like AWS. Ability to making backup on external mass storage (USB/SATA/FC-connected) would...

Hi, after reboot I was surprised with a "no pools available to import" error during boottime, leaving my system stuck with a failed /etc/rc script. I have only one zpool, geli encrypted, pretty much the defaults zfs settings on install. The problem does not exist in single-user mode and I am...

I am trying to install FreeBSD on ZFS. I did this with an manual ZFS installation by changing the freebsd-ufs to freebsd-zfs. I have two disks. The capacity does not matter. One is for the root partition, the other is for /home. On boot, it throws up a console that cannot find the disk or...

I am running FreeBSD in Oracle cloud, Created zpool with 3 block volumes and rebooted the machine, now I don't see zpool, but if I try to create zpool again same disk it gives below error. root@01:~ # zpool create storage da1 da2 da3 invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following...

Hi all, I started an EC2 Instance on AWS using this AMI: FreeBSD 13.1 AMI But what I get is a FreeBSD with freebsd-ufs and not with zfs. Has anyone experience or an idea how to get the latest FreeBSD with ZFS running on Amazon EC2 ? kind regards, Martin

I had microsoft windows 10, debian and freebsd installed on a single partition in my laptop. I only recently started using freebsd. I used this guide here to help me...

While researching an idea of using Microsoft Azure as a cloud service provider for a FreeBSD 13.1 build host - among other available options in cloud services and VPS instances, of course - I'd found the FreeBSD 13.0 release at the Microsoft Azure Marketplace. The page at Microsoft's Azure...

Hello, i am testing ZFS mirror installation in a server, but when i get the mirror degraded the disk information reported by zpool status seems incorrect. Its a fresh installation of: 13.0-RELEASE The partition layout generated by the installer for both disks, ada0 and ada1 are: root@odissey:~...

(Disclaimer: I'm a noob. Structure your replies accordingly.) I installed FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE last fall with the help of this forum. I haven't updated the computer since then, and have basically just ensured that, with my current install, the OS and KDE work and I am able to use Firefox...

Hello, I used Centos for 10 years on a particular server. Now as Centos 8 gone, I would like to switch to FreeBSD instead of Linux (no particular reason, I might just use Debian though, but I like FreeBSD). Now the doubt is here. I have hardware RAID controller there, LSI MegaRAID. 6 slots. My...

At some point in time, my pool named Transcend began using a device reference instead of the previously specified label – gpt/cache-transcend – for its one cache device. Question Now, is there any way for the pool to begin using the label without loss of content of L2ARC? I assume that either...

Hi, Just saw an update on a port in FreeBSD: sysutils/parkverbot . Is there anybody with experience with the port, I wonder if it's really interesting to use? Does it make a difference? Thanks in advance for posting!

I've been using ZFS encrypted datasets pretty much since the first day of availability. On this forum and also the mailing lists I see a lot of people running ZFS "on top of" GELI. I'd like to ask: Is that usually more of a legacy thing or are there situations where one would prefer ZFS on GELI...

I had a setup with 4x4 TB disks, with two mirrors consisting of two disks each, giving me about 8 TB of usable storage space. One mirror consists of ada0 & ada2, the other mirror of ada1 & ada3. I needed to upgrade storage space, so I decided to upgrade one mirror by resilvering two times. I...

I am experimenting with boot environments and observing some very weird behavior related to installing/removing packages via pkg -c /tmp/path/to/be <command>. Any time I attempt to install/remove packages in a non-current boot environment using this incantation and then immediately bectl...

I'm trying to format my external disk with ZFS filesystem. I've search and found several guides using different tools. Since sysutils/gpart is used in handbook, it seems FreeBSD prefer it than other tools. So, I'd like to know what's the difference and I'd like to make sure the commands I used...