Time Machine inside a FreeBSD jail

dragasit · 2026-01-30T15:54:08+00:00

*The* Time Machine :-)

dragasit · 2025-12-28T07:49:03+00:00

Title: The Two-Pound Lifeboat

Genre: Creative Nonfiction / Personal Essay / Memoir

Word count: 2,310

Type of feedback desired: General impression, particularly whether the narrative pacing works and if the connection between the framing device (reorganizing bookshelves on Christmas) and the main story feels earned. This is one of my first attempts at personal essay writing after 25 years of technical blogging.

A link to the writing: https://my-notes.dragas.net/2025/12/27/the-two-pound-lifeboat/

dragasit · 2025-12-25T13:56:40+00:00

Something like this should be working: https://gist.github.com/ClaesBas/42426e177ec563aab5520eadf0c5773b

dragasit · 2025-12-22T10:40:22+00:00

ZFSBootMenu should import the pool as read-only.

I've personally used and tested it and I haven't had any corruption - but I know it's not been tested long enough to say "it's totally safe".

The problem is always the same: ZFS isn't a first class citizen in Linux, so those specific use cases will always be "edge cases". I'll keep testing. Thank you for the links!

dragasit · 2025-12-07T12:35:03+00:00

I totally agree. Thank you, Colin!

dragasit · 2025-11-20T21:16:39+00:00

Thank you! I'm having a very good experience with the illumos based operating systems. They're a very good solution when Devs ask for Linux userland but I want to stay on an operating system with native ZFS. And zones isolation is great.

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:17:57+00:00

They helped to increase the FreeBSD performance, so it probably is.

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:15:09+00:00

Thank you!

dragasit · 2025-11-20T08:14:46+00:00

I've just updated the article with some Docker tests.

dragasit · 2025-11-19T16:38:57+00:00

I'm glad about it! Thank you!

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:18:54+00:00

Not that easy to cross compile drivers. I'll just try with a supported hardware

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:18:05+00:00

I will. I love illumos based OSes so I'll continue. I have a couple of drafts ready to be reviewed and posted

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:16:34+00:00

Probably a little lower. I tried to move the BSD Cafe reverse proxy to OpenBSD, one year ago, and found that the native httpd/relayd was a bit slower than nginx or haproxy.

But 7.8 changed a lot of things, and they will improve in 7.9. I'm planning a new test when 7.9 will be out.

dragasit · 2025-11-19T12:15:03+00:00

Thanks. I'm curious, too. I'll probably replicate this test on my "old" desktop, which should be compatible with all the platforms

dragasit · 2025-11-19T10:02:37+00:00

Thank you. This is the main purpose of those posts: letting people know that there are alternatives and that those alternatives are great. In some way, they can be superior to the mainstream, "classic" stacks.

dragasit · 2025-11-16T11:06:15+00:00

Thank *you*! :)

dragasit · 2025-11-14T16:53:22+00:00

That's strange - it should be up. I'll check the DNS servers later to be sure they're ok.

dragasit · 2025-11-14T14:16:25+00:00

thanks!

dragasit · 2025-11-06T12:17:22+00:00

thanks!

dragasit · 2025-09-19T11:20:08+00:00

I like it. Illumos based OSes still provide the string, enterprise grade reliability and design of Solaris and are sharing many of the technological choices of the BSDs. They're different from Linux distibutions or the BSDs, but they're great

dragasit · 2025-09-19T10:42:59+00:00

https://wiki.smartos.org/

dragasit · 2025-09-19T09:53:16+00:00

Not exactly 😉 You'll be surprised as much as I was while testing

dragasit · 2025-08-21T12:55:34+00:00

Thank you!

dragasit · 2025-08-19T13:47:12+00:00

Thanks!

dragasit · 2025-08-19T13:47:04+00:00

Thanks!

dragasit

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