The recording of the March 11th, 2026 #OpenZFS Production User Call is up:
We discussed the bale snapshot viewer, Linux kernel compatibility documentation, upcoming mount point improvements, OpenZFS hardware acceleration, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
Part 2 of the FreeBSD Foundationals series is out! "ZFS - The Last Filesystem You'll Ever Need."
We go from the philosophy of silent data corruption to practical, battle-tested data management. Covers pools, datasets, why you shouldn't blindly add L2ARC, native encryption, and using sanoid/syncoid to turn backups into a solved problem.
If you've ever lost data and decided "never again," this is for you. 
https://blog.hofstede.it/freebsd-foundationals-zfs-the-last-filesystem-youll-ever-need/
🪤 TrueNAS Deprecates Public Build Repository and Raises Transparency Concerns
｢ Public build systems allow community members to inspect and reproduce the steps used to generate official releases. When those pipelines run behind internal infrastructure, it becomes harder for external contributors to verify that the released binaries match the public source code exactly ｣
https://linuxiac.com/truenas-moves-build-system-internal/
@mrmasterkeyboard @xinit the #RightToFork is elemental to #FLOSS and necessary for #OpenSource to exist.
We ain't criticizing corporations that maintain outdated inhouse forks out of principle, and I think that #evi isn't a "fork for the sake of forking" but actually does things different and apparenty "irreconcileable" to the mainline Project.
Nit to mention EVERYTHING IS "#POLITICAL" - including "apoliticalness"!
FreeBSD 14.4-RELEASE is out — the fifth release on the 14-STABLE branch.
Highlights:
- OpenSSH 10.0p2 — post-quantum key exchange by default, DSA dropped, sshd-auth split out
- OpenSSL 3.0.16
- OpenZFS 2.2.9
- New sndctl(8) utility for sound devices
- Two jail escape vulnerabilities patched
- Raspberry Pi Zero 2W now supported
Full breakdown: https://www.opensourcefeed.org/freebsd-14-4-released/
#OpenZFS now has much more detailed information about which varieties of Linux are supported.
tl;dr: all kernel.org "longterm" series, all RHEL active & maintenance series (including clones), and Ubuntu LTS.
(No actual change in practice, just trying to write it down a bit more clearly).
https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-kernels-and-distributions
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Althaser/115674242119863157
call for testing
Sylve - FreeBSD management plane
At <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1rpzri3/call_for_testing_sylve_freebsd_management_plane/>, @hayzam wrote:
＂We just pushed a big update to Sylve and are doing our first call for testing.
Sylve is an open-source control panel for FreeBSD virtualization and storage, designed to manage bhyve VMs, FreeBSD jails, and ZFS from a modern web UI. Development is currently funded by the FreeBSD Foundation. …＂
Docs: https://sylve.io/
TuM'Fatig - Slackware on encrypted ZFS root
https://www.tumfatig.net/2026/slackware-on-encrypted-zfs-root/
My Slackware laptop was doing well with LUKS/LVM/EXT4 but after some Fediverse discussion, I decided using ZFS would be safer for my data. The problem is OpenZFS is not integrated into the Linux kernel and not that well integrated into Linux distribution in general. That said, Ubuntu offers an integrated option and other distros have documentation about such cases. Those are my notes dedicated to The Slackware Linux Project .
Something new: a daily-or-so summary of my #OpenZFS nonsense, direct from the Github events firehose.
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