okay. #n4sa2e book production is complete. Time to get on #openzfsmastery.

Which means seriously getting to grips with #bhyve.

Did some bhyve experimenting a couple weeks ago. Got FreeBSD installed just fine. Debian with ZFS, not so much.

So this week it's go back, one step at a time. Install base debian with grub, does it work? Then UEFI, then ZFS secondary disk, then root on ZFS.

This morning's install ends with a console saying:

grub>

#sysadmin

The Debian installer wrote grub to disk, but... didn't configure it? Huh.

Time for some classic #sysadmin headdesking.

okay. #n4sa2e book production is complete. Time to get on #openzfsmastery.

Which means seriously getting to grips with #bhyve.

Did some bhyve experimenting a couple weeks ago. Got FreeBSD installed just fine. Debian with ZFS, not so much.

So this week it's go back, one step at a time. Install base debian with grub, does it work? Then UEFI, then ZFS secondary disk, then root on ZFS.

This morning's install ends with a console saying:

grub>

#sysadmin

The Debian installer wrote grub to disk, but... didn't configure it? Huh.

Time for some classic #sysadmin headdesking.

Planning to use #freebsd #bhyve and vm-bhyve as a test bed for #openzfsmastery.

My 14-3-p4 host has em0 and em1. em0 is for host management, em1 is part of the vm-public bridge. I have a freebsd 14.3 VM installed with a tap0 in the bridge, no problem. em1 and vm-bridge do not have IP addresses.

Reboot, log in, start VM.

Ping from the host to the VM? ~45% packet loss.

Wait a few minutes, and packet loss gradually drops to 0.

Seems weird to me. Is this expected? Should I file a bug?

Planning to use #freebsd #bhyve and vm-bhyve as a test bed for #openzfsmastery.

My 14-3-p4 host has em0 and em1. em0 is for host management, em1 is part of the vm-public bridge. I have a freebsd 14.3 VM installed with a tap0 in the bridge, no problem. em1 and vm-bridge do not have IP addresses.

Reboot, log in, start VM.

Ping from the host to the VM? ~45% packet loss.

Wait a few minutes, and packet loss gradually drops to 0.

Seems weird to me. Is this expected? Should I file a bug?

Ubuntu has supported ZFS since 2016 and is not.

#openzfsmastery#nonotryagain

Ubuntu has supported ZFS since 2016 and is not.

#openzfsmastery#nonotryagain

Wow, getting ZFS-on-root on Linux is a PITA.

Looks like Ubuntu desktop installer is the easiest option. #openzfsmastery

Wow, getting ZFS-on-root on Linux is a PITA.

Looks like Ubuntu desktop installer is the easiest option. #openzfsmastery

If the #n4sa2e Kickstarter or the #openzfsmastery sponsorships do well, I'm planning to switch my commercial systems to MacOS. All that hits in September.

But this TPM garbage makes me want to run a gofundme experiment -- "hey folks, give me $4k to switch to Mac so I can end the agony of Windows!"

Not gonna. That would be rude, and whiny, and selfish in a world full of pain. But soooo tempted...