The Faulted Disk: harbor Replacement Writeup
The sequel to panicking-led-to-losing-my-desktop — this time the monitoring actually caught the disk dying, and nothing was lost. What happened is my replica pool — a 10.9T mirror…
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latest post 2026-10-06
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Backups are dope
I accidently chown’d -R an app directory and it totally screwed up the database folder. Luckily I zfs replicate my docker volumes to another drive even on the same host, so a quick…
SMB with ZFS on Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install -y samba \ then set sharesmb=on \ chown the user \ smbpasswd -a \ then mount with user/password from other machine
Recovering from zpool corruption when you’re short a drive
can only mount tank RO so can’t rename also can’t detach which is what I’d want Could import pool witn -N to not mount any datasets detach and attach resilver…
D and uninterruptable sleep
Htop I recently have been having significant home server issues, and that’s not the point of this - today I learned what state is when looking at htop. Apparently this means “unint…
lsof to find what’s using your filesystem
lsof | grep /tank/nas shows me what is using my nas at any time!
Changing ZFS key for child datasets of encrypted dataset after migration
➜ pihole sudo zfs load-key -L file:///path/to/.zfs.tank.key tank/encrypted/vms/arch-sandbox ➜ pihole sudo zfs change-key -o keylocation=file:///path/to/.zfs.tank.key -o keyformat=r…
Systemd timer for syncoid
I have a bash script called which boils down to a barebones - I want to run this script hourly but as my user (notice the no-privilege-elevation flag) First - create a systemd unit…
Limit zfs list to avoid docker vomit
zfs list has a flag -r, but if you use zfs driver for docker then you’ll get flooded with every docker volume in the world. zfs list -r -d N will limit the dept of the print out, s…
Quick setup of ZFS encrytped datasets with sane permissions
Assuming you have a pool called … And assuming you have an encrypted dataset (See Jim Saltar’s short intro) Create a group for permissions - in my case I have one called Then if th…