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Apologies for the slow reply. The card isn't anything special: SanDisk SDHC 4GB Class 4. I bought it a while back so it may have been superseded.

RPi 1 Model B works just fine for me with the FreeBSD 11.0 image. I used mine as a wireless bridge for a little while. Lack of official precompiled ports and updates put me off trying to do anything more meaningful with it.

UEFI does provide "runtime services" that are available to the OS after it has booted (in contrast with "boot services"). This kind of service is useful for things like changing the boot order from within the OS. I believe it would therefore be possible for a UEFI BIOS to include a malicious...

Phishfry, thanks for the information. I've not seen a 32-bit UEFI implementation in the wild but you piqued my interest. Perhaps it is because I have a looming work deadline :) I found an interesting Intel blog posting on the subject: Why Cheap Systems Run 32-bit UEFI on x64 Processors...

What are you trying to boot from? A FreeBSD UEFI memstick image? Can you see the install media in the list of boot options? If you can't successfully set the boot device from the UEFI boot menu then it may be that the UEFI shell won't help. However, the shell is very powerful and should...

Ouch. I think that would put me off trying to nest ZFS pools on a production system.

Great! Sounds like a success to me. :) For next time (hoping there won't be a next time for this particular issue) you might find script useful. Running script /tmp/usb/thingsThatIDid.txt before you started would have recorded your terminal session as you saw it; commands and outputs. It...

An interesting solution and certainly ZFS volumes offer a lot of flexibility. Like you I would be concerned about the integrity of your nested ZFS pool secure if you did not export it before taking the snapshot, since the pool hosting the volume doesn't know anything about the volume itself. I...

You are correct. Under normal circumstances you will not need the GELI metadata backup files. If you use key files with your GELI containers, it is absolutely essential that you back these up. Without them you will not be able to decrypt your data! You don't need to wait until you have...

duce, if you are still looking for someone you may attract more interest by sending a message to the freebsd-jobs mailing list.

You could add the following to rc.conf to have /tmp emptied on startup: clear_tmp_enable="YES" I would wager that the files you see can safely be deleted but you can check whether they are currently in use using fstat: fstat /tmp/tpl-* If you're worried they might not be in use now but are...

I also find there is a short delay of the order you describe whilst the scanner actuators seem to activate and move the arm slightly forwards before resetting for the start of the scan. Perhaps it is a method of ensuring the scanning arm is in the correct starting position? Using OS X and the...

Hi Sevendogs. I'm glad you got this working. I finally got around to setting up my Canon LiDE 220 scanner on my FreeBSD 11.0 desktop, reading the Image Scanners section in the FreeBSD handbook. After some initial testing it appears to work just fine without any specific configuration on my...

Slightly confusingly, ZFS pools have a ZFS dataset at their root. ZFS pools may contain more than one dataset but they always contain at least one. So, salival, I believe your ZFS pool storage contains a single dataset also referred to as storage. Getting back to your original question... I...

No, I don't believe it is possible to pick and choose which datasets are received from a stream. The man page for zstreamdump has a tantalising description of "zstreamdump - filter data in zfs send stream" but is actually for viewing information about a stream rather than filtering out datasets...

Thanks for the great list, Oko. You are right here: the title of the bundle is a bit misleading but I'm happy to ignore that and just consider it as a set of (mostly) useful books. Who knows, maybe the shells/bash books will be useful when I find myself having to debug some script. Man pages...

It's a great bundle of books and well worth the purchase even though I already have several of them in hard copy. Thanks to xavi for the heads-up. The "vi and Vim" or "GNU Emacs" depending on your personal preference, "sed & awk" and "Classic Shell Scripting" are the pick of the bunch in my...

Hi Antarex. I also had to use the mode command so I could see the console properly later with my Nvidia GeForce GTX 770M. For me, putting the following in /boot/loader.rc.local worked. mode 2 I needed to try several modes before I found one that gave me a useable console once booting was...

Welcome to the forums, Greg Uramowski. What you want to do is possible; you can filter outbound as well as inbound traffic using a firewall. Remember you will need to allow the connections for the VPN tunnels. The FreeBSD Handbook has a section on firewalls and might be a good place to start...

Welcome to the forums, Mattais. FreeBSD 11 is a great time to get started with GELI on an SSD as I see from the release notes that it now supports TRIM. In addition to the manual pages you might find the following sections in the excellent FreeBSD Handbook helpful: Encrypting Disk Partitions ZFS.