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Alright, the fediverse has spoken! I am going to work on packaging the app nicely and write some documentation so people can start using it. Posting on this thread as soon as I make it available #zfs #freebsd #linux #homelab

Goodbye Linux & Podman, hello FreeBSD & Jails!

Just migrated my blog (https://blog.hofstede.it) to a fully native BSD stack (where my Gemini Capsule was already living).

Stack (using Bastille VNET Jails)
- Caddy (Ingress, TLS, Reverse-Proxy)
- Nginx Jail (Internal. Static file serving)
- PF

The Cool Part: A Zero-Trust CI/CD pipeline.

My Forgejo runner deploys via restricted rrsync into an air-gapped "transporter" jail, which nullfs mounts the web root.

Security: Source-IP restricted, no interactive shells, no PTY.

The simplicity of files-on-disk beats container abstraction every time.

#BastilleBSD #SelfHosted #SysAdmin #IPv6 #ZFS #FreeBSD #RunBSD

I have a small golang app that listens to #zfs zpool events and sends a notification to ntfy.sh or your self-hosted instance of it when there’s state changes with errors. I wonder if more people would be interested in using it. I currently have it running in both #freebsd and #linux servers. #homelab

#TIL that there are no knobs in #NetBSD to configure #ZFS ARC memory consumption.

I started to use ZFS for my disk with backups and digital archives near a month ago, because I didn't want to think about changing sizes of LVM partitions. And my homelab server has only 2 Gb of RAM and some swap

Whoops. Not a good surprise

Alright, migration completed, replaced #proxmox by #freebsd 15 using bhyve for the vms, sharing #zfs pools via nfs where I need. Only missing piece is setting up samba shares for backups and copying media files. Every app is already running under #docker in a #debian vm. I also have to setup the cronjobs for replication and backups, but I will leave that for the weekend. #homelab life

I recall seeing this before on this host, but I'd forgotten about it:

[16:49 r720-02 dvl ~] % zpool status data01
pool: data01
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices are configured to use a non-native block size.
Expect reduced performance.
action: Replace affected devices with devices that support the
configured block size, or migrate data to a properly configured
pool.
scan: scrub repaired 0B in 00:15:40 with 0 errors on Mon Dec 8 04:05:38 2025
config:

NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM
data01 ONLINE 0 0 0
mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/S59VNS0N809087J_S00 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
gpt/S59VNJ0N631973D_S01 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
mirror-1 ONLINE 0 0 0
gpt/S5B3NDFN807383E_S02 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native
gpt/S5B3NDFN807386P_S03 ONLINE 0 0 0 block size: 512B configured, 4096B native

errors: No known data errors

#FreeBSD #ZFS

#zfs

that is all

Oh I love it. ZFS is too nice. Created a mount point for an LXC within the UI of proxmox and made it 100GB instead of 10GB.

Editing the file in `/etc/pve/lxc/105.conf` to adjust the description and executing the cmd `zfs set refquota=10G tank/subvol-105-disk-1` made the disk/mountpoint smaller to the correct size. NICE!

#proxmox #lxc #zfs

@JdeBP That laptop has some problems. I was able to get FreeBSD installed after changing it from #BIOS to #UEFI (with hybrid CSM). I spent some time with it today on my lunch break and changed it to UEFI with native CSM. There was no change. But, what I did find is I am unable to update the BIOS (even after the recent recommended downgrade from HP) because....the NIC isn't recognized. That is new. So now the laptop is currently stuck on a firmware from 2018 with apparently no #Ethernet. Stupendous!

I set it aside and dug out another spare laptop. This time my mother's old #Toshiba #Satellite that was running #Windows7. It's a Core i7 with 8GB with an ancient 5,400 RPM disk. Should be fine. Well, I ran into problems after choosing the auto #ZFS option. After that, the installer could not proceed. Even after rebooting the laptop and restarting the installer I was unable to do anything to the disk, including delete slices or choose auto UFS. I have never experienced this before with FreeBSD and I am comically puzzled.

I did have a spare FreeBSD 14.1 DVD laying around and so far the installer is working just fine, even if it is moving slower than molasses down a freezer wall.

#tech #problems #wtf

Fosdem 2026 : BSD, illumos OpenZFS & bhyve devroom

Don't forget, you only have a week to submit your talks ! The deadline is the December the1st. ⏰

https://people.freebsd.org/~rodrigo/fosdem26/

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