Benchmark your disks with fio
Intro I use ZFS at home in my homelab for basically all of my storage… Docker uses ZFS backend, all my VMs have their images in their own zfs datasets, and all my shares are ZFS da…
Posts tagged: zfs
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latest post 2026-10-06
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ZFS Permissions for Sanoid/Syncoid
load-key only needed if using encrypted datasets
Self-hosted Docker registry with proxy pull through
I decided that I want to self-host all my docker images for the purposes of regularly rebuilding and security scanning. The first step is to set up a registry, which coincidently e…
How I use Nextcloud for safe central storage
Setup admin External Storage extension Add my nas zfs dataset chown -R www-data:www-data on anything nextcloud uploads to.
Nextcloud permissions with ZFS and Ansible-NAS
TL;DR As the nextcloud docs say… if you want to write to an external volume that location has to be writeable by the user/group on the host system… so if that makes sense to you th…
See ZFS snapshot disk usage
As I was cleaning up my NAS recently I noticed that I ran out of storage even though my disk usage looked pretty low… turns out I was keeping a mega-ton of ZFS snapshots and due to…
Remove ZFS Dataset Specific Snapshots
I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem… that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of folders and into datasets…