@matteo-nunziati said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

@saniplastic said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

@DustinB3403 said in Deciding Between Hardware and Software RAID in My FreeNAS Deployment:

metadata

metadata?

please explain more.

The config files where the vm is defined. Do not backup the vm disk only. I suppose he referes to this.

I backup with veeam.
whole vm files.

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Traditionally TrueOS has been a good desktop.

I would check if there are any DNS errors trying to get the Repos or sites then look at this:
https://github.com/saltstack/salt-bootstrap/issues/996

More recently on this:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=225104

@black3dynamite said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce:

@scottalanmiller said in GhostBSD 11.1 Released with MATE and Xfce:

My Xfce download is underway.

What's GhostBSD default desktop environment?

MATE and Xfce. Those are the only two that they make.

Wow, major changes since I last tested it!

https://github.com/firehol/netdata/releases

Factory Reset, Setup, Disable Hardware Checksum Offloading, Works Prefect.

@scottalanmiller said in FreeNAS Gets Hit by the Jurassic Park Effect:

HCL

Yes, agreed!

@scottalanmiller said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

@Ghani said in Freenas 9.2.18 server , CIFS services unable to start:

Yes i agree your sounds

If the only goal is an open source file server (we call this a SAM-SD, there is a section of the forum just for that) then the most likely recommendations for an OS will be openSuse Tumbleweed or Fedora. CentOS and Ubuntu are fine choices too. FreeBSD is excellent, but less well known.

You make it sound as though the wise choice here would be to install OpenSuse etc direct to the hardware.

@Ghani said in Extend ZFS zpool Volume Size Without Any Data Loss:

@scottalanmiller

yes rsync not a backup solutions

So in a "read back" mode, this tells us that the data stored here isn't important so there isn't really anything to worry about. If you do the expansion and it causes data loss, they can't be upset as they don't see value in the data. This also tells us that the servers shouldn't be there, because if they aren't backed up and they aren't a caching system then you shouldn't have them at all.

So there is clearly something wrong.

FreeBSD does have getent.

@Reid-Cooper said in Open source Firewall:

pfSense was really good in the past. But I agree, the days of building your own firewall on an old PC that you have are over.

Right - the cost just isn't worth running your old PC. Power alone will cost more than the cost of an ER-X or ER-L.

@scottalanmiller said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

@Grey said in UNIX: Switching Users with su:

Pop quiz: why do you need the dash with su?

That was in the original article.

And I quoted you without quoting you..... see what I did there, I switched a few words :P

@DustinB3403 said in FreeNAS Domain Failure on AD:

@scottalanmiller any news yet?

Nope

@tjatwood109 said in ZFS is Perfectly Safe on Hardware RAID:

@scottalanmiller

Thanks - I will proceed without using ZFS - I prefer hardware RAID.

Tim

ZFS is perfectly fine with hardware RAID, if you like ZFS' features otherwise (like zsend is nice) then there's no reason to avoid it. If you don't plan to use any unique features, then XFS is my "go to" choice by default. Very fast, very stable.