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Everyone is picking on the wrong detail. Their setup has each individual disk as a 1-disk RAID0 array. Each of these RAID0 arrays are then passed to ZFS to create a pool with ZFS in control of redundancy. That's not the issue. The pool is redundant. The issue is that they can't figure out how...

Let me guess, their last names are Hatfield and McCoy? ;)

There's been some interesting back and forth between Amazon Prime and Netflix. Amazon will cancel Stranger Things if Netflix cancels Good Omens. :) Will any of the other streaming services jump in to try and cancel shows they aren't streaming? :D

Correct. And, the --hard-links option NEEDS to be used when copying a FreeBSD system. Hard links are used all over the base system. A sub-5 GB install will balloon out to 20+ GB if you rsync it without --hard-links! We found that out the hard way. :D All of our nightly backups are done via...

And, you will get a list of whatever is in /etc/shells, so if you don't want to see an option, and don't want your users to use a specific shell (and don't want to physically remove the binary for whatever reason), then edit that file.

A more appropriate headline would be "Netflix finds vulnerabilities in custom TCP/IP stack written by Netflix, included in FreeBSD, but not enabled by default". :) The RACK stack was originally written by Netflix, for use by Netflix, and upstreamed into FreeBSD (as Netflix uses FreeBSD for...

You don't need to have vlan-capable devices to use vlans. You need to have a vlan-capable switch. For devices that don't understand/use vlan tags, you configure the port on the switch to be part of vlan X. It will only be able to communicate with other ports that are also on vlan X. As...

I'm partial to rsync. :) We use it for anything involving moving large numbers of files across filesystems, drives, systems, etc. Handles ownership, permissions, special files, devices, etc. Works across local mount points, remote filesystems, and anything you can connect to via SSH. And it...

The technical and legal answer is simple: anyone can take the FreeBSD sources, package it up however they want, and release it to the world as "OS Whatever Name You Want". That's kind of the whole point of the BSD license. Do whatever you want with the source, just make sure to leave credit...

Those should be set in /boot/loader.conf not /etc/sysctl.conf. They need to be set before the kernel and ZFS modules are loaded.

em0 and em0.1 both use the default vlan ID of 1. The difference is that em0 sends/receives untagged frames (the switch handles figuring out all the vlan stuff based on port configuration), and em0.1 sends/receives tagged frames only, and only processes frames tagged with vlan ID 1.

Ah, didn't realise this was a BBB. Completely missed that in the OP. You're out of my sphere of knowledge. ARM chipsets do weird and wonderful things that aren't quite standardised. :)

Change 3wire to 3wire.115200 if you want to use that baud rate. The Hanbook chapter on Setting up the Serial Console has more info on editing /etc/ttys.

If you want to discuss the LinuxKPI-type stuff that's handled in the kernel, the FreeBSD Development forum would be a good place to post. If you want to discuss using software that uses the Linux ABI, then either of the forums under Ports and Packages section would be appropriate.

Here's info from the recent BSDCan conference covering ZFS on FreeBSD, what it supports, where it's going, and how it's going to get there. There's currently only the slides available, but I believe they're working on getting a recording of the session as well...

Here's info from the recent BSDCan conference covering ZFS on FreeBSD, what it supports, where it's going, and how it's going to get there. There's currently only the slides available, but I believe they're working on getting a recording of the session as well. About a third of the way through...

Here's info from the recent BSDCan conference covering ZFS on FreeBSD, what it supports, where it's going, and how it's going to get there. There's currently only the slides available, but I believe they're working on getting a recording of the session as well...

Could also be that it's trying to run ntpdate before the network link is established and working. Pretty hard to query a server on the Internet without an Internet connection. Read through rc.conf man page, paying attention to the netwait options. That will pause the boot process until you...

You can try the old CTRL+Alt+Del to issue a reboot. If that fails, you'll have to force power off. If you have dedupe or compression enabled, then scrub/resilver will require a lot of RAM to run. Especially on older FreeBSD releases (pre-9 was especially bad). With dedupe enabled, you may...

You'll need to find a list of features that ZFS-on-Linux supports, and compare that to the list of features that FreeBSD supports. Find that features that are common between the two. Then use that list to create the pool with only compatible features enabled (you list them via -o optionX=on -o...