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@RootMoose In times like these, having "home" & such -- directories to be saved & used across different OSen{,-adjacent} -- on different ZFS _pool(s)_ than the pool with "/" comes in rather handy (as do not have to care to save anything on "/"-pool), even if that pool would need to be carved out of extra ZFS partition(s) of the same disk(s).Admittedly that is easier to do with separate disks (or in a virtual machine).#ZFS #ZFSEverywhere

A couple of days ago, few hours before leaving home for a four days trip I decide to upgrade one of my home servers to FreeBSD 15.1. Nothing difficult.After upgrade the machine start rebooting in a loop. I pick up my serial cable and see the boot process crash when mounting ZFS panic: zfs(panic): zfs: rt={spa=zroot vdev_guid=546977716602668702 ms_id=9 ms_freed}: adding segment (offset=2431c0000 size=1000) overlapping with existing one (offset=2431c0000 size=1000) that's terrible.I relay on this machine to access my nextcloud where all my trip tickets are stored.Hopefully ZFS saves my day!I was able to boot back to the previous snapshot, and smoothly restore the service, but I probably need to start thinking in a replacement for this machine.... #FreeBSD #ZFS

https://www.reddit.com/r/zfs/comments/1uo72bi/bzfs1230_is_out/ … bzfs is a CLI for reliable ZFS snapshot replication using zfs send/receive and SSH. It is meant for the boring-but-important corner of infrastructure where "probably replicated" is not the vibe. The main bit in this release: bzfs can now drive recursive resumable ZFS stream packages …

hardware corruption?! Sometimes, errors occur when the USB connection is physically disturbed. Other times, there's no obvious explanation. I might be hands-off, with my cat nowhere near, at the time.

… Let's move on. It's still quite newsworthy; Cody Franklin used the phrase "recently". Until yesterday, I never heard anyone from TrueNAS or IXsystems talk about the transition. I learnt something new.

See: https://www.rubenerd.au/bsd-bottles-of-water-and-positive-habits/