Tootfinder

You could be off, sloshing in beer and downing a couple.
Instead you're installing gentoo on zfs, and in doing so discover a great archlinux project, with zfs and zfsbootmanager included.
https://github.com/stevleibelt/arch-linux-live-cd-iso-with-z…

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 …

#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…

@… Kubuntu 25.10 here. I used the 25.04 installer for Ubuntu to give me OpenZFS-native encrypted root-on-ZFS.
Months have passed, I have not found the time to visualise how I might begin using bemgr, zectl, or ZFSBootMenu – without starting from scratch.
Management of ZFS boot environments:
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Home server root disk died a few days ago. (Important stuff is on #ZFS & mirrored, but ZFS on root for Linux has been a bad experience) I'm trying #NixOS this time, mostly so if it dies again, I can rebuild quickly.
It reminds me of `rc.conf` on

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…

Checking out, before cooking, that guide by @… .Installing VoidLinux, zfs, encryption and hibernation. Gonna follow all those steps meticioulsy., but not today.
It is no surprise ssh works ootb on Slackware.
Pots and pans are calling, happy xmas all!!

ZFS encrypted root on Ubuntu 25.10, installed from a fresh USB key works fine following the instructions at
https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting Started/Ubuntu/Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS.html
It's a …

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 😂!

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:
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This was one of the very first ZFS demos I've seen at some sales engineers training by Sun Microsystems Germany (Sun and Sun partner engineers), probably sometimes in 2005. Demo was to export the pool, unplug and scramble the thumb drives, plug all drives back in and import the pool. #vintagecomputing #zfs

Props to the #Incus team. I had set up a Rocky 9 machine using Incus and ZFS as a test at the start of the year. I just updated the whole system using dnf update and installed the incus rpms somebody built for inclusion in the epel repo (but they are not part of it yet). And things seem to work great after a single reboot.

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

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

These days off are good to nerd out even more...
🤖 Finish dwm setup on VoidLinux zfs
📑 Install Cosmic on Nix
🤓 Add riverwm to Slackware-Tilers
Ain't talking about T2SDE or Gentoo.
Yet 🤣

... and I know I shouldn't be configuring new work laptop when I'm on vacation, but here we are.
Modern Ubuntu not including a ZFS root option from the installer is a giant pain.

@… : Just a quick shoutout and thank you!
Your tutorial on setting up VoidLinux, on ZFS, with encrypted swap worked great. Followed all steps, and everything (including hibernate and restore) works exactly as expected.
Learned some things along the way (encryption, zfsbootmgr) and, most of all, had a lot of fun doing it ;-)
Tomorrow I'll be…

@… 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 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…

@… I use OpenZFS-native encrypted ZFS for one of the file systems in a pool on a mobile hard disk drive on USB.
No GELI.
#FreeBSD #Linux

blackship
― a FreeBSD jail orchestrator with TOML configuration, dependency management, state machine lifecycle control, ZFS integration, VNET, and jailfile templates.
<https://github.com/seuros/blackship> via <

＂… In an 8 GB VM, FreeBSD used a non-trivial 1.8 GB of RAM. …＂
For desktop use: a machine with 8 GB should be fine 👍
Screenshots here show a 1 GB machine running KDE Plasma with LibreOffice, vscode (Code - OSS), Firefox with YouTube and four other windows, htop in Konsole, and YouTube playing very smoothly in Konqueror.
After quitting everything except Konsole: less than 700 M real memory was used, some of which was ZFS ARC – a good thing.
This is not to recommend a …

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.