GaryH Tech installs WebZFS by q5sys (JT) on FreeBSD
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GaryH Tech installs WebZFS by q5sys (JT) on FreeBSD
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ePkpVMHu8> @garyhtech
― via <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1qvi95q/garyh_tech_installs_webzfs_by_q5sys_jt_on_freebsd/>
Cc @poes
The recording of the January 28th, 2026 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:
We discussed ideas for new community events, suggestions for GNU/Linux distributions for use with OpenZFS, upcoming Zelta features, block cloning and 'zfs send', and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
The 2025 #OpenZFS User and Developer Summit presentation slides are now up:
Next up for the #NextCloud deployment in the #HardenedBSD infrastructure: Backing up the VM storage to the NAS on a regular basis.
The VM's #OpenZFS zvol gets auto-snapshotted every 15 minutes, hour, day, week, month, and year.
I'm hoping to find something (suggestions welcome!) for something that can handle the zfs send part to the NAS but NOT handle the snapshotting itself.
Put another way: I want a tool I can use ONLY to run zfs send on an existing snapshot, sending it to a remote ssh host.
Or am I forced to use the same tool for both snapshotting and transfer?
The recording of the January 15th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the EDK2 port update, virtio-scsi improvements, Windows NVMe driver surprises, bhyvectl(8) IPC changes, Unix domain socket support for the frame buffer, MAJOR unprivileged bhyve updates, MAJOR PCI hot-plug updates with demo, bhyve/ARM64 news, CPU pinning, #OpenZFS ARC management, and more!
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You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
The recording of the January 7th, 2026 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:
We discussed the webzfs web UI for OpenZFS, quiz news, documenting contemporary hardware assistance and acceleration for OpenZFS, proper write overhead, new Zelta features, libzfs_core improvements and a better long-term strategy, and more!
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With a budget, colleagues and I would:
⚡️Reduce volunteer cash advances for events
⚡️Improve the #OpenZFS test suite and documentation
⚡️Organize East coast USA and European OpenZFS summits
⚡️Continue to improve #bhyve
⚡️Continue to improve community Audio/Video wisdom and equipment
⚡️Consider cloud service backup/export challenges (I got Google Drive mirroring to work!)
The money is out there but is firewalled.
If you believe in these same goals, please reach out to potential supporters.
In 2025 I introduced colleagues to over half a million USD in employment opportunities. Now I am forced to think about myself.
❤️
The 2025 #OpenZFS User and Developer Summit presentation slides are now up:
With a budget, colleagues and I would:
⚡️Reduce volunteer cash advances for events
⚡️Improve the #OpenZFS test suite and documentation
⚡️Organize East coast USA and European OpenZFS summits
⚡️Continue to improve #bhyve
⚡️Continue to improve community Audio/Video wisdom and equipment
⚡️Consider cloud service backup/export challenges (I got Google Drive mirroring to work!)
The money is out there but is firewalled.
If you believe in these same goals, please reach out to potential supporters.
In 2025 I introduced colleagues to over half a million USD in employment opportunities. Now I am forced to think about myself.
❤️
To summarize: I have a mirrored #ZFS pool which crashes both FreeBSD kernel and #OpenZFS when trying to import (both disks and each separately).
The disks are old but fine, no IO errors (I have dd/raw images of both disks), last daily scrubs were fine.
Ideas anyone? @robn perhaps?
Related to my post here: https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/kernel-panic-with-zfs-destroy-on-snapshot.100660/
The recording of the December 17th, 2025 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:
We discussed OpenZFS terminology for new developers, Zelta 'rebase', #FreeBSD bectl(8) zpool history improvements, User-Space OpneZFS news, a change in ashift=9 and 12 behavior on FreeBSD, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
The recording of the December 17th, 2025 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:
We discussed OpenZFS terminology for new developers, Zelta 'rebase', #FreeBSD bectl(8) zpool history improvements, User-Space OpneZFS news, a change in ashift=9 and 12 behavior on FreeBSD, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
It's a shame they dropped native support from the installer. That was a lot of hoops to jump through.
One thing missing was needing to run
addgroup --system gnome-initial-setup
otherwise gdm3 wasn't coming up. I'm also not sure if swap is working properly, but that doesn't really matter for me.
