Tootfinder

Has anyone successfully used these FreeBSD Project-provided virtual machine disk images?
FreeBSD-14.3-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-15.0-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-zfs.qcow2
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow2
Not booting for me in QEMU. Respectively:
― <https://…

I got most ARM64 machines working in QEMU. One exception:
FreeBSD-16.0-CURRENT-arm64-aarch64-zfs-20260113-2b60e628d3b1-283055.qcow
XML at <#FreeBSD

Void, with encrypted zfs, on the laptop. Dwm or River. Tbc. But Gentoo dwm is calling. Possibly before Tet.
NixOS with KDE on the N150. Solid.
Finally revived the old NUC with Slackware Tilers: Sway and Mango. And Dank. Great stuff.
The Thinkpad that wasn't sold: this will be either TileOS or Hatchery, a project by Troutcobbler, an old ArchLabs mate. Both Debian, tiling wm's. Cool. Check them out.
The last one will be after Tet, I'm off for a couple of days fo…

@… Kubuntu with OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.
Previously, for around a decade, FreeBSD.

#Fedora update done, smooth sailing even on ZFS as root filesystem.
Previously, I had multiple failed offline upgrades with ZFS root (it would just reboot again without doing the update), and I suspect `systemctl add-requires local-fs.target zfs-mount.service` fixed it because the `/system-update` symlink pointed into a non-mounted filesystem without that.
Now enjoying the warm fuzzy fee…

@… https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18304
@…

TIL that #btrfs will happily run into a "no space left on device" wall with no possibility to write metadata anymore (which is needed for balancing and thus getting out of this situation) 🤦
(btrfs haters and #zfs enthusiasts incoming in 3... 2... 1...)
UPDATE: Solution is to `btrfs devic…

My advice to you is to get over meme filesystems like zfs and btrfs and (God help you) bcachefs and just use either xfs or ext4.
'oH bUT mUh sNApShOTs'
grow up and buy a tape drive and don't spam breaking changes at production systems

@… for ZFS (the default),
zfs mount -a
@…
#FreeBSD

It's too much. I installed TileOS, Debian based, Riverwm. Aeryn with Cosmic is running. My labwc with Noctalia should be on FreeBSD. Discovered PostmarketOS has a desktop iso. Fluxbox on MX still pulls me in. Chimera on ZFS deserves a second, thorough, test. Man, so many wildy cool things happening. And Alpine KDE needs some wrapping up. Slackware and Gentoo stay the solid foundation.

@… sorry for brevity, you can set the sysctl in single user mode before exiting to the installer.
However: I should not expect the workaround to suffice with 256 MB memory with ZFS.
Cue: a small flood of responses about ZFS (please, no …)!

I've spend and enjoyed an incredible rabbithole. ZFSBootmenu, with encrypted ZFS, running either ChimeraLinux KDE or AlpineLinux KDE.
I've gone completely bonkers: Chimera (thanks to the great guide by @… !) in the end worked, but was eating up around 2 Gb of RAM 😭 . Alpine was a long and very winding road, to say the least. In the end (we are …

To everyone's satisfaction I've been quiet over the last week and a bit.
That state of bliss will end soon 🤣
I got caught up in zfs, btrfs, encryption, bootloaders, Chimera Linux and Alpine, what have you. It's been a great ride, a challenging one and a shouting-at-clouds rollercoaster, all in one. Two options awaiting me, choice to be finalized today. Slackware, Gentoo, FreeBSD, even NixOS have become boringly reliable 😂!

@… it should be fine, after installation, however you'll need to customise during installation because FreeBSD Installer defaults to using an entire device (with a ZFS pool for the OS).
<

@… thanks, one additional point: I would not ask OpenZFS to reject the type of code that it already accepts.
To avoid any possible confusion: I mean <https://

@… condensed:
1. Ubuntu, for simplified OpenZFS-encrypted root-on-ZFS
2. xubuntu-desktop
Whilst I have not tested <https://itsfoss.com/install-xfce-deskt

RE: https://mastodon.social/@catavz/116339820266308598
@… confirmed:
OpenZFS-encrypted root-on-ZFS is a feature of the in…

@… @…
Kubuntu here, although I chose Ubuntu for the installation – for simple OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.