zfs

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...

DISCLAIMER: Introduction After a successful installation of FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE on a Dell OptiPlex Micro (MMF) 7010 (GPT+ZFS on NVMe SSD) I felt encouraged to do the "same" on an older Dell Vostro 3470 of mine which was running a fully updated FreeBSD 13.2-RELEASE. The system uses UEFI...

I have created a HowTo about using ZFS inside a jail with AppJail: https://github.com/DtxdF/AppJail/wiki/zfs

Hi. I have hard drive called ada0, it does get mounted on boot but it doesn't show up in gpart show command. It has a zfs pool on it called wdc, when I export this pool, it shows up on gpart show command and there is saying CORRUPT on the ada0. I tried using gpart recover ada0 twice, it works...

I've been happily using 13.2-RELEASE for a while, with ufs filesystem Now planning to setup a fresh14.0 system on some old~ish hardwares, likely a combination of modest SSD and a single spinning drive. 14.0 system will just be used for a simple desktop, and various small projects. Most likely I...

DISCLAIMER: The beginning of the story I've got a new hardware, Dell OptiPlex Micro Form Factor 7010, on which I was willing to perform a "relatively minimal" :-/ FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE installation. After having successfully created & tested the "recovery media" following Dell recommendations...

I used iocage export to transfer a jail from one host to another host. The jail's export files were transferred using rsync. However, I cannot get iocage to successfully complete the import on the destination. This is apparently caused by running out of swap space. Dec 13 12:20:11 vhost03...

New to ZFS, and wondering what exists in BSDland to easily create a bootable .iso image and spread the goodness. I've been using clonezilla for years, works great on UFS filesystem, but not so much anymore as I just learned clonezilla does not support ZFS. The only thing I can think of would...

The internet is filled with how to guides on zfs and so is youtube. I saw the handbook part on zfs but it only scratches the surface. I want to basically keep a backup of my laptop that is running zfs i only have USB drives so i would like to mirror what is only my laptop so if something...

Hello! I've had a little mishap :oops: So far nothing bad happened. The initial situation: I have the following hard drives installed in my PC. 2 TB NVMe (EFI boot partition and the rest Windows) 1 TB NVMe (NTFS formatted, data grave) 2 TB SATA SSD (FreeBSD-ZFS and FreeBSD-Swap) 1 TB SATA SSD...

I use ZFS snapshots and mirroring (both on a harddrive that is permanently connected and on harddrives that aren't always connected) as a means of keeping backups of my data. Using the snapshots, I can go back in time if I accidentally delete files or something else happened to my data on the...

14.0 shipped with ZFS 2.2 and block cloning disabled (behind a sysctl). ZFS 2.2.1 was just released with the same (default to disabled) change, due to corruption issues people are running into. It appears there is still a bug that can be hit with some combination of sysctls. I would recommend...

https://old.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/182pgki/freebsd_sysctl_vfszfsdmu_offset_next_sync_and/ From the pinned comment: Please see the pinned comment, which has changed, and may change again.

Dear Everyone, The release notes for 14.0-RELEASE state, "After a system upgrade, but before doing a zpool upgrade, the boot loader on the ESP must be updated, or the system may become unbootable." My question, in great brevity, is, "How?" (when the system is purely UEFI GPT) Having looked at...

Hello there. Just upgraded from 13.2 to 14.0 RELEASE, via freebsd-update tool. I guess I manually need to execute command for ZFS update/upgrade, after FreeBSD upgrade from 13.2 to 14, right? I'd like to be careful on this step because this is a remote dedicated server with no physical access...