Ich habe mir eine #LincStation N1 als Server für daheim besorgt.

Das enthaltene #Unraid habe ich mir gar nicht erst angeschaut, stattdessen habe ich #Debian 13 auf der internen eMMC installiert.

Zwei SSDs mit je 1 TB hatte ich noch, die jetzt ihren Dienst als gespiegelte Platten unter #ZFS versehen.

Den ersten Tag habe ich damit verbracht einen Dämon für die Status-LEDs zu erstellen. Dafür alles mögliche im Internet gesucht und selbst reverse-engineered. Der tut jetzt schon seinen Dienst. Per default würden alle LEDs blinken … und natürlich liefert LincPlus keinen Sourcecode.

TODOs

- Nach und nach die Dienste auf meinem VPS im Netz auf die Box ziehen.
- Backup Strategien mit ZFS Snapshots erstellen. Evtl. zusammen mit einer 1 TB #StorageBox von Hetzner.
- Meine #Nextcloud-Daten (#StorageShare) auf eine eigene Nextcloud transferieren.
- Evtl. für Fotos einen eigenen Immich Server.

Also einiges zu tun, jetzt muss es nur noch regnen, damit ich nicht lieber nach draußen will.

#SelfHosting #HomeServer

Ah zpool resilver, my good friend.

I was slightly nervous upgrading my server from Debian 12 to 13. I shouldn't have been though since the Debian team does such a good job with documentation and testing to make these upgrades smooth.

Somehow I purged the Linux kernel headers package which caused the ZFS module to not be re-built so I got a surprise when I rebooted, but that's an easy fix and I was back in business in minutes.

Debian stable is just so damn nice for servers.

Well, last night I followed the procedure in the release notes to update a #Debian #Bookworm laptop to #Trixie. This laptop has a #ZFS root with native encryption. Spoiler: Crash and burn I get dropped into the initrd debug shell. The next fun exercise will be to boot a live system, and try to roll back the boot and root pools to the snapshot from before the update. Stay tuned! #openzfs

I know a lot of folks are #Selfhosting big storage here, so this is a question for you!
Also, I follow you @stefano and @gyptazy and know you have hands on experience with this, hence the tagging.

I plan to upgrade my #Proxmox storage with 4 12+TB disk (mostly for expendable data, don't really care if I lost lot data if a disk dies, but they will be in #zfs raidz-1).

So for my current budge I'm thinking about buying WD Red Pro 12TB or I also found Toshiba Enterprise MG Series 20TB (MG10ACA20TE).

Do you recommend any of this, or can you help me find better disks?

Thanks for your help!

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My friends, I'm so excited and happy to introduce a new project: the illumos Cafe!

The positive and constructive spirit of the BSD Cafe, created and maintained by all the friends who participated from day one in building a strong and friendly community, deserves to spread to other operating systems. Because there are other OSes that deserve attention, certainly more than they're getting right now.

Operating systems based on illumos (like SmartOS, OmniOS, Tribblix, OpenIndiana, etc.) are mature, stable, secure, and perfectly usable for a wide range of tasks. ZFS is native, zones are an excellent method for containerization, and bhyve and kvm coexist beautifully - and so much more, too much to list in a single post.

So from today, the illumos Cafe will stand alongside the BSD Cafe in creating a positive, respectful, and growth-oriented (but also relaxing!) environment, starting right here in the Fediverse with a Mastodon instance and a snac one.

I've written an introductory article about the project, including some technical details. I invite everyone interested to read it: https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/08/18/introducing-the-illumos-cafe/

Choose your table, take a seat and enjoy your time at the illumos Cafe!

So, as a warning to anyone else - unRAID v7 does not correctly/easily import zfs pools that contain special devices.
You'll need to play around to get them to work, and it's rather annoying.

Started building my entire infrastructure monitoring solution from scratch!

- Powered by FreeBSD!
- Using Jails and seperation of duty:
- One Jail running Grafana and Prometheus
- One Jail running Netbird Wireguard to connect my infra securely
- One Jail running Nginx and Certbot

All ZFS based for backup / snapshots and rollback options.

Routed and NAT'ed via a seperate dedicated pf jail.

All working fine, I get first metrics and can start slowly improve from here.

Todo:
- Alerts via AlertManager
- Log-Ingestion via promtail
- Log analysis with Grafana Loki
- Adding remaining servers via WireGuard Mesh VPN
- Adding another Jail for Uptime-Kuma

Ich wünschte wirklich, #ZFS würde endlich unter GPL gestellt werden.

Im Vergleich zu #BTRFS ist das doch sehr viel angenehmer zu handeln.

Aber - ich vermute, man muss sehr viel Halluzinogene zu sich nehmen, um erfolgreich glauben zu können, dass #Oracle hier was Gutes tun könnte, oder?

(Anlass war eine im Raid ausgefallene HDD, die zum Anlass genommen wurde, den Datenpool mit neuen HDDs zu vergrößern. Das finde ich mit zfs und syncoid unfassbar viel einfacher zu handeln als mit BTRFS. Vor allem, wenn man nicht erst nach dem Kopieren von ca. 10 TB herausfinden will, ob man das richtig gemacht hat.)

Why isn't there an equivalent to zfs.rent in Europe :(