How performant would #ZFS be on a #Thinkcentre with an i3 -4160 and 4 GiB of DDR3 RAM?
Would it be usable as a headless remote storage/backup box with 3x 1TB SATA SSDs in RAIDZ1?

If I can get #FreeBSD to boot on it that is. #homelab #selfhosted #selfhosting

(boosts welcome)

I tend to keep too many #OpenZFS #ZFS boot environments. Case in point, my DNS server:

Still have the original boot environment created six years ago.

I'm back with another #FreeBSD question, specifically about `periodic`. I'd like to use `periodic daily` to occasionally scrub my ZFS pools by setting `daily_scrub_zfs_enable` to `"YES"` in `/etc/periodic.conf`. This works great on a server, because it's always on, but not so great on my laptop, because the cron is scheduled at night. I could change the time, but then it'll only run if my laptop is on at the right time.

Is there a way to schedule this so the `periodic` crons are run after booting, in case there are "missed" runs? What is the recommended approach here, use e.g. Xfce's autostart applications for this?

Edit: solved! The answer is anacron

Thanks for reading :)

#cron #periodic #zfs

20 hours for "zpool attach" a single drive to #raidz1 in my case =) Turns out you can't "attach" two drives at once, so there will be two resilvering processes after each drive attachment. 40 hours in total.

#zfs #homelab

"ZFS with a striped configuration can be more space-efficient compared to other setups like RAIDZ, as it does not require additional space for parity. However, the actual usable space will depend on the number of disks and the specific configuration used."

With this in mind, I started to migrate data from striped #zpool to #Raidz1

There was around 10TB of data to move. But after moving all that data, it took around 20TB on a two-drive raidz1. Some #BlackMagicFuckery

#zfs #nas #homelab