2025-09-13
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ZFS
Linux
For a long time I’ve been running my storage on a 2-disk ZFS
mirror. It’s been stable, safe, and easy to manage. However, at some
point, 2 disks just aren’t enough, and I wanted to upgrade to RAIDZ2
so that I could survive up to two simultaneous disk failures.
I could have added another mirror, which would have been simple, and
this setup would allow two drives to fail, but not any two drives. I
wanted the extra safety of being able to lose any two drives.
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2021-05-21
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NixOS
ZFS
Linux
Backup
Today my work day didn’t turn out the way I expected. It started like a
normal day, I woke up around the regular time, did my morning routine, sat at
my desk and started my work-issued laptop.
It booted up just fine, I connected it to my Ultrawide display, started going
through Slack and Email and catch up on some news while drinking my morning
tea and waking up.
Then after around an hour of work things started to hang up, most notably
Firefox totally froze up. I could launch a new terminal but not start htop,
I had a htop session in a terminal already because it’s part of what I
usually have running. So I went there to look.
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2019-08-04
· 6 minutes read
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NixOS
Linux
ZFS
So for a long time I have wanted to replace my file server, because it’s an
old HP Microserver that is really slow. And at the same time I have had this
beast of a desktop tower PC that I haven’t used with a Xeon and 32GiB ECC
memory that has just been turned off due to noise. The obvious solution is to
re-purpose that install and move it to a location where noise doesn’t matter,
e.g. the closet (a.k.a the server room) where the file server lives.
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