zfs

So I installed a fresh system using ZFS with my home directory at /Users/joshua (I'm also a MacOS user so it feels familiar lol) and I noticed that /home still exists and is set in zroot. I suppose that's normal because the system probably assumes that other users would have their homes there...

We have 3 servers with ~40 jails on each under CBSD management. Each jail running our perl application. We would like to share installed packages, binaries, installed perl modules across jails. Plain is master jail as a base image jails for application created via `cbsd jclone` , then via ZFS...

Hi, I'm on 14.0-RELEASE and wondering if that is intended behaviour. I have an encrypted dataset with "sharenfs" property set (and indeed intent to share once mounted) but after loading the key and mounting, the dataset is not automatically exported (/etc/zfs/exports is empty) so I have to issue...

Hi, my ordeal continues. I was trying to install FreeBSD 14 bare metal but had a host of issues with that that didn't work, so I installed 13.3 to Virtual Box in Linux and passed over a hardware usb dongle with an NVMe U.2 drive connected that I want some data off of it. (Backups were only...

on 14.0 after a $ zpool status indicating "unactivated features" and a $ zpool upgrade -a (if I remember correctly) the machine suffers from amnesia. what can I do to recover? what did I do wrong?

This is a strange one: I've recently reinstalled FreeBSD 14.0 on an old, non-mission critical PowerEdge R710. Two zpools were created, zsystem and zdata. Since the old BIOS doesn't give me a JBOD option, the pools were created with megaraid virtual devices all attached to the same controller...

The following is the zdata array in a FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE system: HD Device Passthrough Device Serial GPT Model Firmware Slot # mfisyspd0 pass0 V8H9UVMR data_disk11 HGST HUS726T6TALE6L4 40H 0 mfisyspd1 pass1...

I had a hard time describing this problem succinctly to generate a title. Thanks also for your patience, as I am not a professional sysadmin but a scientist. The bottom line is that my 4U JBOD power-cycled (or the controller dropped it) for some reason. When the disks came back online, there...

I am having issues with my upgrade to 13.2 from 12.4 and would like to revert to my previous version of FreeBSD for note-taking and attempting a new update from scratch as I cannot get my jails to run, I cannot get VNC or Xrdp to run at startup. I am a little gun shy as I am not sure why my new...

I have a Sabrent 4 disk dock with spinning disks and ssds for game storage on my system. When I have the dock turned on at boot the boot fails. I initially, per the handbook, had all drives in fstab. I have since removed them and created a mount script to load after boot. Is there a way that I...

i have a zfs video dataset that is mounted in my home directory, and i want to mount it using nullfs to the video directory in a Linuxulator chroot i can manually mount the directory from the host into the chroot the issue is the zfs datasets are mounted later in the boot process than the...

Introduction: This is a guide on how to dual boot windows 11 and FreeBSD 14. I recently received a fantastic laptop that happens to be surprisingly compatible with FreeBSD, so I highly recommend it, and no, I am not sponsored by MSI; I have merely fought enough laptops to recognize a keeper when...

Hey there, we have a strange effect. After some time (weeks) the ALLOC raises quite high (here >50GB) over the real file usage. System commands like du and df showing always (nearly) the right usage of the dataset, butt the ALLOC and AVAIL space going completely wrong. See outputs below: vsd --...

Hi all, While trying to get a mirror of stripes built with ZFS (thread) I attempted to create a pool using zvols as vdevs: # zpool create -f ZP-MIRROR-01 mirror /dev/zvol/ZP-STRIPE-01/ZP-STRIPE-01_zvol /dev/zvol/ZP-STRIPE-02/ZP-STRIPE-02_zvol cannot create 'ZP-MIRROR-01': no such pool or...

Years ago I bought a second-hand Dell PERC H310 card, hoping I would build a performance NAS for someone I knew; it didn't happen. Today, someone brought me an old HP Proliant DL120 G7, the one with 8 2.5" drive bays. The plan is to install 8 SATA SSD disks, one for the FreeBSD (v14.0) system...

Hi all, With regard to ZFS: I have a bunch of drives that add up to >22TB, and I have a single 22TB drive. Can I build a JBOD of the first set of drives, and mirror that JBOD with the 22TB drive? A bit like have a mirror top-level vdev made up of two second-level vdevs: one being a...

First, a quick warning to beadm users: If you have upgraded to 14.0 and you boot from ZFS and you ran zpool upgrade on your root ZFS pool and you beadm activate a pre-14.0 snapshot then you may be in for some pain :'‑( How did I get here: My FreeBSD system uses UEFI, I boot from ZFS and I...

Alright, so this may be pretty niche but I'm curious to know if anyone's run into this particular issue. The background is that I'm using sysutils/cbsd for bhyve orchestration and I'm getting around to learning more on how I can leverage cbsd to build out a little cluster to make VM migration...

Hello Free Beastie Besties, I have a two zfs pool root-on-ZFS Debian 12.4 setup: 1G unecrypted `bpool` and 100G zfs native encrypted `rpool . (I got those names from following the framework in this guide...

I am in the process of setting up a NAS in my home. Currently, I have 4x WD Purple 4TB HDDs and one old LITEON CV8-8E128 (128GB) SSD. I could find this thread in the forum, but it seems to be quite old and things may have changed since then, especially for the SSD. Here is the link...