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 […]
ZFS Bare Metal Restore
This article documents the procedure to do a full bare metal restore of a FreeBSD ZFS system that has been backed up with ZFS send.
Samba Errors and ZFS
I have been working on cleaning up a lot of errors that I am seeing on my samba install. It appears that ZFS needs all the extended ACL support installed and configured in smb.conf to make it work without spitting […]
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 […]
How to install FreeBSD 7.0 under ZFS
ZFS is an exciting new file system developed by Sun and recently ported to FreeBSD (as well as many other operating systems). It has raised a wide and loyal following in the FreeBSD community (just check out the chatter about […]