zfs

I have a 3-way mirrored ZFS pool configured for backup purposes, alongside a ZFS-on-root pool that my system utilizes. All hard drives in the setup have GPT labels. Recently, I encountered an issue where ada0p1 was missing its label when I ran the zpool status command. Fortunately, I managed to...

question about acl permission. Files that could be deleted with freeBSD12 cannot be deleted with FreeBS13. I updated os from freebsd12.0 to freensd13.2, and updated samba from Version 4.8.12 to Version 4.19.7. via samba, user can delete/rename and file in freebsd12.0, but can't delete/rename...

I have backup on my whole src pool, stored on the server: data/backup/src_pool. Backup was made with zfs snapshot -r src_pool@migrate zfs send -Rv src_pool@migrate | zfs recv data/backup/src_pool Now I am trying to restore it to the root of the new pool zfs create new_pool ... zfs snapshot...

Hi, I am setting up a very simple FreeBSD hypervisor in my homelab mainly for learning purpose as I am new to FreeBSD, Bhyve and ZFS. - The host is pretty small: 12Gb of RAM and 500Gb of disk - I opted for a very simple setup for now: ZFS with one disk and one zpool (zroot). - I use vm-bhyve -...

We have few servers with 14.1-RELEASE-p4, all of them have significant memory leak Please, help us find out what exactly leaking and fix it. Intersting observation is 14.1-RELEASE-p3 don't have the issue, with same set of services/processes/aplications. here is top header Mem: 135G Active, 31G...

So I took recursive snapshots: sudo zfs snapshot -r prime@snap Then I tried to send: sudo zfs send -R prime@snap| pv | ssh wsenn@fenris "sudo zfs recv -Fd prime" It went swimmingly until it hit 3.23 GiB, then the clock keeps ticking, but the network activity grinds to a halt. Help. Here's...

I have set up an nfs share on my local home network as follows: zfs list prime/ark 12.8G 883G 12.8G /ark vipw - change my user to 1000 to match linux vigr - change my group to 1000 to match linux recursively chown the zfs mount point to my user and group...

I just notice that my swap (encrypted, created during install with zfs auto install option) isn't decrypting or mounting at all. beastie@BattleStar-Lat54 --> ~ Ψ cat /etc/fstab < 21:36 > <...

Hi, I asked this first on Practical ZFS, but will repeat it here. tldr; zfs snapshots of datasets are empty? # uname -a FreeBSD zabbix 14.1-RELEASE-p3 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p3 GENERIC amd64 # zfs list NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT zroot...

Hi, in older version of FreeBSD zfs pools were visible after reboot and in their history was not filled with repeated "import" items. After a break i get back to FreeBSD 14.0R/14.1R and i see that on every reboot non boot pools have new "import" item. Is there a way to have additional non-boot...

Which method (or utility set) would be best for making EVERYDAY ZFS snapshots of server’s current FreeBSD system (whole system installed but NOT THE WHOLE DRIVE) to internal USB 2.0 pen-drive? Need to NOTE: this USB 2.0 pen-drive are FORMATTED as bootable (by periodically downloading from...

Hello. I've been using FreeBSD on my pc for about a year now and decided to go fully FreeBSD, removing other multibooted OSes from my desktop. Currently I have a single 300GB UFS partition on my HDD that I used as root on FreeBSD. I'm trying to install one 120GB SSD for the OS and two 2TB HDDs...

Hello everyone, I am running a homemade NAS server (consumer hardware with a lot of storage), and I am migrating my data that was all on an external USB disks. I tried out many methods and tests before running a production environment (including installing a base 14.1-RELEASE). Currently I am...

Hi, Currently I have a zpool that does not work anymore. The name of the pool is zroot. The VM was running in FreeBSD version 14.1 and got in a faulty state when the host hang. ZFS is always better then no ZFS (Dan Langeville), I would like to learn from this broken state. The gpart show...

I cannot use the script from ZFS dtrace scripts to print the correct value of zfs_dirty_data_max, and the output is as follows: CPU ID FUNCTION:NAME 2 85224 none:txg-syncing 41MB of 0MB used 0 85224 none:txg-syncing 25MB of...

Have not touched linux (redhat) since right before xwindows was new. My plan is to set up a machine from used parts to work like a file server with a bunch of Raid5 of 4TB spinny HDD's and its main job will just be to nightly make backup copies of my PLEX media repository. But I would like to...

I encountered a boot failure after switching the boot drive from a sata ada0 to a nvme drive nda0 with attaching/detaching, by executing the following commands: zpool attach root ada0p5 nda0p4 # after resilvering done zpool detach root ada0p5 Also, I installed a new ESP on nda0 mount_msdos...

My question is about atime. I have read numerous sources that indicate atime=off is a performance enhancement. Since the device I am creating is primarily a squid proxy server they also recommend "atime=off" for their associated caches and data. Starting here Root On ZFS and continuing with...

I have an application where we run many services in jails. Each service is isolated from the others and keeps its local data in a ZFS dataset that is passed into the jail. We're working on increasing redundancy in the system. Right now we are using ZFS snapshots sent to a backup server to cover...

Hello, How to deal with the situation when the external drive with ZFS was temporary disconnected / power loss. After reconnecting drive: # zpool status pool: zrbackup01 state: SUSPENDED status: One or more devices are faulted in response to IO failures. action: Make sure the affected...