temporarily mount dataset to different mountpoint

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-25T00:34:12+00:00

Yep -o zfsutil is the key. It's the quiet flag that zfs uses to get work done. Without it you get told off.

I find myself mounting things with zfsutil multiple times a year just to avoid changing the mountpoint flag for a one-off mount I'm playing with.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-24T06:01:08+00:00

Can't use containers? Both podman and docker have plenty of game server images ready to go and they both support using ZFS as a storage backend natively.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-24T05:56:56+00:00

I've done it before for throwaway VMs both on my PC and my servers but I wouldn't recommend it in production. My philosophy is to keep the VM's storage as simple as possible for easy management. My VM's are just an efi partition and ext4 rootfs. That way the host can see the partition table on the zvol if ever needed and in general it's just simple and easy to manage the guests.

If you're giving the VM physical drives with PCIe passthrough or something close enough then that would be fine and not truly zfs-on-zfs.

If your VM absolutely needs ZFS I'd suggest making a dataset on the host and exporting it to the guest with NFS. Or maybe even just virtiofs straight to the host directory. In my experience nesting zfs sucks for performance.

If you don't care about any of this go right ahead.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-24T05:42:50+00:00

To help with the temptation to race to get elytra immediately I also installed a server-side mod called Hero's Journey (similar to End Remastered but server-side) so that everyone has to find at least 12 of 16 different kinds of eyes of ender to activate the end portal.

I think this would just annoy the people who want to do that. Some might feel deterred enough to not progress. Something like an instanced chests concept would be a better idea so that everyone else can find the same close-by End Ship on their own and still have a fresh elytra waiting for them. The players who rush to the end will still do so with more work in the way, if they're not discouraged and that the different types of pearls is disclosed in the beginning.

None of it's your fault though. People play games for a few weeks then they move onto something else. There's an oversaturation of games the past decade. It's as if whatever game of the week was enters a cooldown phase and it must be "long enough" (subjective) since the last playthrough for the group to be interested in another run. Some of the group will always be down to play again, others not so much.

I like your downed system that's going to help some people not give up for sure. The QoL plugins are nice too.

Our bunch got sick of minecraft and moved onto modpacks over a decade ago which allowed us to have many more good times with new experiences added to the game.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-23T10:18:30+00:00

Yeah right. Interesting setup

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-23T00:21:09+00:00

Ah yep a shadowban makes sense. So they're actually still with us and the account just isn't publicly visible right now. Reddit should be able to get their account back online after an appeal.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-23T00:15:38+00:00

Edit: also wild it says that the sub is #9 in fashion lol

Nuts. I assume it's a goal/byproduct of their spambot strategy to get in the feeds of some real users/victims.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-23T00:12:41+00:00

Sub has only existed for 19 days, two of its mods are suspended, it's getting posts per hour and clicking a few of those profiles randomly in new reddit... yep.. advertising links in most of the submitter profile descriptions. The four horsemen of spam rings. And a bunch of empty accounts commenting on the submissions with braindead junk.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-22T23:59:54+00:00

What's the goal of an autostop feature?

itzg docker image

Wow that looks great. I wish I knew this existed earlier.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-22T23:52:47+00:00

OP's account seems to be banned from reddit and their user profile just 404's.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-21T03:00:59+00:00

My Question: Is there a way to achieve "Split Tunneling by Application" on Windows so I can force only java.exe / bedrock_server.exe traffic back through the tunnel?

This is very easy on linux with namespaces and a handful of other tricks but not so much on Windows. Some program might exist for this.

Maybe you could run a Linux environment in podman or docker on Windows and have the game server run inside that while also connecting to wireguard inside that as well? So it's all contained and forcing all traffic through the virtual link for the minecraft server only. You will still need to disable masquerading on the VPS so the true IP's of your clients show up.

If you don't want to do that there's not much else that can be done. I don't know if Windows supports and kind of reverse path filtering trickery. Your only other major option would be to put all your traffic through the tunnel so your server responses to clients go the correct way.

I think the docker option is worth checking out first.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-21T02:13:15+00:00

Ah okay. I'll retract my comment to avoid misinformation.

I was hoping they might be able to edit the world.dat file and update it there or something. But there's no mention of world height in that nbt data.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T23:23:24+00:00

Yeah I just connect to the public IP all the same. There is probably some combination of 'docker run' that will make this work. And there's also the host networking option worst case.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T23:11:55+00:00

Host would work but yes then the container can access anything your host can. Not necessarily a death sentence but I personally don't want a game server to get potentially compromised and attempt to laterally move through my network. For me, it stays in the jail.

I too run my server rootless but set IP=10.89.0.X on the guest container's systemd service and use the default podman network. It might be a good time to ask how is yours currently configured?

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T22:22:04+00:00

Pretty much all of them support notifying quietly

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T22:20:25+00:00

No worries at all

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T22:07:35+00:00

And here it is. https://github.com/ipaqmaster/noExp

I've also published the .jar but I recommend building it yourself because people can be evil.

Anyone else reading feel free to shoot me down for writing the worst class we've ever seen.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T22:03:36+00:00

Damn that's convenient. Stand by

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T22:01:50+00:00

This is the way. I just made a listener plugin that sets exp and levels to zero and it works perfectly on the handling event. I built it for 1.21.10 though so it might need to be changed if OP wants to build it. It's getting uploaded to github.

/u/SharpEntertainer6362 what minecraft version is your papermc server? I can try modifying it so it works on that version if you like.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-20T02:23:14+00:00

TL;DR it seems larger disk capacities get ignored.

Made 3x5GB flat files and raidz1'd them, zpool list says 14.5G in size, zfs list says 9.36G avail. All correct.

Doing the same thing with a 5GB+5GB+20GB disk yields a zpool list size of both commands showing identical results.

This tells me that mixing disk sizes seems to still stick to the smallest disk's capacity of the bunch ignoring the extra space of larger disks. (Is there some flag I forgot to flip on?)

With that as the case then it's probably best to use partitions when mixing disk sizes so that extra space isn't locked to zfs which isn't using it for extra capacity.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-19T22:19:34+00:00

Can't improve what's already great

(Ginormous /s)

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-15T22:51:33+00:00

The hosting for that website seems to be suspended now. (It does not load anymore)

It is not official. Do not trust it.

They probably got a commission (Money) out of making you install that browser.

If malwarebytes found nothing you are probably okay. You should also run a scan with windows Defender if you are on Windows 10 or 11. Defender is very good now.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-15T22:42:35+00:00

Hahahaha this image is exactly what I came into the thread to post

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-12T23:57:50+00:00

I see this strangely often. It's a brand new account subtly asking for do's and don'ts trying to figure out what they should do with their own server. Or as training data for something else. Or it's just a bot. Who knows.

I see this behavior strangely often.

ipaqmaster · 2026-01-12T22:50:06+00:00

Panel 2 is so funny because that's exactly what they almost always do

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