FreeBSD Upgrades with ZFS boot environments
FreeBSD has always been my OS of choice but in the past I have always viewed upgrades as one point of failure. What is the upgrade doesn’t go as expected, How do I role it back? If you have FreeBSD […]
FreeBSD ZFS mirror/raidz
This how-to documents how to setup ZFS and install FreeBSD 9.1 into it. ZFS is a great modern file system (invented by SUN Microsystems) to use under FreeBSD. It is very fast and will give you the same features available […]
FreeBSD Startup Scripts (rc.d)
Practical rc.d scripting in BSD Beginners may find it difficult to relate the facts from the formal documentation on the BSD rc.d framework with the practical tasks of rc.d scripting. In this article, we consider a few typical cases of […]