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• ComputerGuru
  I’m primarily a ZFS-on-FreeBSD kind of guy but I repeatedly had need of doing ZFS-on-Linux recently and after a couple of times wrote it up for others. There are a lot of these guides, the difference is that this one tries to be idiomatic, using “native” tooling (eg systemd, love it or hate it) to do the job as “correctly” on Linux as possible:https://neosmart.net/blog/zfs-on-linux-quickstart-cheat-shee...
• srean
  Anyone knows how to search HN comments using Algolia for "RAID". Is there some secret support for case sensitive search ?
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  throw0101a
  When setting up root-on-ZFS on FreeBSD, it's worth knowing about boot environments (a concept originally from Solaris):* https://klarasystems.com/articles/managing-boot-environments...* https://wiki.freebsd.org/BootEnvironments* https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bectl* https://dan.langille.org/category/open-source/freebsd/bectl/* https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/14/zfs-boot-environme...It lets you patch/upgrade an isolated environment without touching the running bits, reboot into that environment, and if things aren't working well boot back into the last known-good one.
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  toyg
  Is zfs really worth the hassle, for someone who does not have time to play "home sysadmin" more than once or twice a year?I've just rebuilt my little home server (mostly for samba, plus a little bit of docker for kids to play with). It has a hardware raid1 enclosure, with 2TB formatted as ext4, and the really important stuff is sent to the cloud every night. Should I honestly bother learning zfs...? I see it popping up more and more but I just can't see the benefits for occasional use.
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  TacticalCoder
  This is getting lots of upvotes and rightfully so. I think people would love more posts about FreeBSD: especially about ZFS and bhyve (the FreeBSD hypervisor).It's a bit sad that this Lenovo ThinkCentre ain't using ECC. I use and know ZFS is good but I'd prefer to run it on a machine supporting ECC.I never tried FreeBSD but I'm reading more and more about it and it looks like although FreeBSD has always had its regular users, there are now quite some people curious about trying it out. For a variety of reasons. The possibility of having ZFS by default and an hypervisor without systemd is a big one for me (I run Proxmox so I'm halfway there but bhyve looks like it'd allow me to be completely systemd free).I'm running systemd-free VMs and systemd-free containers (long live non-systemd PID ones) so bhyve looks like it could the final piece of the puzzle to be free of Microsoft/Poettering's systemd.