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Home Fileserver: A Year in ZFS
Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as ‘A Year in Provence’, does it? Oh well, never mind. After a year of using Solaris and ZFS for a home fileserver, I thought I would share my experiences here to...
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Home Fileserver: ZFS File Systems
Once you’ve built your ZFS home fileserver / NAS, you’ll want to create your storage pool, create your file systems and share them to various devices around the home, such as laptops, PC’s, Macs, media...
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Home Fileserver: ZFS boot pool recovery
If you should be unlucky enough to be unable to boot your OpenSolaris NAS one day, then these notes taken from a real restoration test might help you get back up and running again quickly. After...
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Home Fileserver: Handling pool errors
Until today I had never encountered even one read, write or checksum error on my ZFS NAS. Today I saw one checksum error coming from the mirrored SSD root boot pool which I have just installed. Unless...
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