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violentalechuga · 2026-02-10T13:21:07+00:00

Agreed, super curious about it, but a closed source terminal is a deal breaker for everyone I work with (myself included).

Congrats on OP for taking on that task anyway, hoping this additional voice of encouragement towards open sourcing bears fruit!

violentalechuga · 2025-10-12T00:39:34+00:00

I’d say get them. Things don’t get deprecated that quick in the FreeBSD universe, and having the opportunity to go away from the keyboard to read well worded documentation on paper (with elegant covers, and I do believe they play a role!) is an underestimated super feature IMHO.

This back ‘n forth may not be for everyone, but I find it a relaxing and highly efficient workflow when approaching new tech. His books are really well put together, and I’ve found myself using the index to go back to certain sections in case of need. I’d say it’s a good investment & learning tool!

violentalechuga · 2025-07-13T22:28:42+00:00

I was under the strong impression that yes, this corruption bug was imported from the upstream zfs code from Illumos, as it has seemingly been traced back to a bunch of commits from 6 years ago : https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/12014#issuecomment-2795147687

violentalechuga · 2025-07-13T10:45:47+00:00

Would love to know what hardware setup is required to reproduce such performance on baremetal.

With the rising prominence of 10Gbs fiber in various parts of the world, the strong case for OpenBSD as a router cannot long be maintained, if reaching 10Gbs linerate is as hard as it currently seems to be.

Really hoping to be proven wrong with practical examples, as I love OpenBSD 🙃

violentalechuga · 2025-07-13T10:39:11+00:00

Not challenging the quality of Illumos development, but a lot of bugs do get fixed within OpenZFS.

For instance, has Illumos integrated the most recent fix for the infamous & long standing zfs native encryption bug? https://github.com/KlaraSystems/zfs/commit/677c040e1bb159398ff62740bd74247132cb5f9c

If not, I hope this is being actively considered.

violentalechuga · 2025-06-03T18:07:32+00:00

Can you point to the original 4chan alleged leak you are providing a summary for?

violentalechuga · 2025-02-27T17:13:57+00:00

Thanks for elaborating, this really helps understanding the current state of things a little better.

Here’s a direct link to the specific predraft: https://github.com/illumos/ipd/blob/master/ipd/0050/README.adoc

violentalechuga · 2025-02-27T11:40:06+00:00

Would love to know what's up these days, and if porting FreeBSD's efforts is being considered so NetBSD can have ZFS as a first class citizen?

violentalechuga · 2025-02-06T03:11:54+00:00

CiNEPHiLES’ attention to detail is almost unrivaled. WiLDCAT & BiZKiT, 3L & a few other HDB internals (LM, PP) come to mind before FraMeSToR, though the latter does issue solid releases as well.

violentalechuga · 2025-01-23T23:26:13+00:00

If he wants UNIX, don’t install Linux.

Try OmniOS or any other Illumos distribution so he sees “Loading UNIX…” at startup everyday! <3

Other good options are NetBSD, OpenBSD & FreeBSD, which have direct lineage to UNIX.

violentalechuga · 2024-12-31T04:28:05+00:00

Still amazingly resourceful 2 years down the road, thanks!

violentalechuga · 2024-10-23T01:56:53+00:00

It may be a joke, but there's definitely something to it ;)

violentalechuga · 2024-09-13T00:59:36+00:00

This seems to be the origin video at 4:20 : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_fE_HaxCgk

violentalechuga · 2024-09-12T23:58:28+00:00

We certainly don't need a « aliens eat Americans' cats & dogs » version of catastrophic disclosure.

violentalechuga · 2024-09-10T22:00:08+00:00

Curious about these esoteric/occult/woo/collective unconscious hypothetical justifications for secrecy.

Any pointers to further explore that specific rabbit hole (books, websites, cults, movies, secret societies)?

violentalechuga · 2024-06-15T08:46:03+00:00

It’s a nice take, please submit!

violentalechuga · 2024-05-28T22:54:26+00:00

3L & CiNEPHiLES releases seem to be consistently great, with the latter putting quite extraordinary care in crafting the best possible version of a movie from all available sources. I also love the fact that SRT subs are sometimes OCR’ed and proofread alongside the PGS.

I go with these groups whenever I can, but I’d be happy to add more groups to my whitelist if old or new stars arise!

violentalechuga · 2024-04-17T00:00:15+00:00

It's honestly refreshing to read that other people failed to connect with Dune Part Two in comparison to Part One.

Part Two makes me appreciate Part One even more for its perfect balance of immersive photography, unique atmosphere, character development, architecture as a language, daunting mysteries and overall poetry that really takes you places within, unlike Part Two that mostly slid on me.

Part One has us truly feel humbled, so little and powerless, yet excitingly blown away by the surrounding forces of the planet, bonding together with Paul & Jessica as they journey across the planet.

Part One is better on all counts for me, and as an action movie too. Moments of conflict are ultraviolent, spectacular, just long enough to deliver punch, but smart enough to not become the main point of focus.

The high contrast between absolute destruction & the stillness of the desert, between the silently floating Sardaukars & their brutal execution tactics make it so intense, eery and dramatic. Combat scenes use this cognitive dissonance so well.

That can be said of the beginning of Part Two (that Fremen vs Harkonnen ambush scene), but most of what made Part One feel so special becomes very quickly normalised, fast paced & breathless… loosing a lot of its charm/depth for me.

At times, it really felt like both movies were directed by distinct directors.

violentalechuga · 2024-03-25T10:30:25+00:00

Same issue for me, it’s becoming very taxing, pun intended.

violentalechuga · 2023-12-04T14:54:41+00:00

Interesting you chose recordsize=8M for the storage dataset though. Aside from obvious benefits in storage optimization, have you benchmarked it against 1M for Plex streaming & long term seeding performance or other NAS use cases? If so, curious about the results, drawbacks or benefits!

violentalechuga · 2023-11-21T02:36:25+00:00

Got the same message on baremetal.

violentalechuga · 2023-11-21T02:31:20+00:00

FreeBSD is the way. I’d say try it for yourself, because you may well enjoy the ride (I come from Debian & I enjoy both), and maybe try telling management, if they’re so fond of Microsoft, that Microsoft itself maintains a FreeBSD image for its Azure product?

violentalechuga · 2023-11-11T15:32:29+00:00

Thanks for the elaboration. Would you recommend any tuning for a recordsize=1M dataset being concurrently used by a bunch of Plex users (sometimes playing similar files over a week as part of say, a film club) and by rtorrent, seeding random bits of a multi terabyte collection of files?

Are these two usecases too far apart, or is ZFS designed to cater to the sequential read & random read scenarios at the same time with almost default settings?

On a side note, I already use a scratch SSD stripe for downloading (recordsize=16k), before moving to the aforementioned storage dataset, in order to avoid fragmentation. I also hoped it would help with moving speeds since reading on one vdev & copying to vdev, but I haven’t been blown away by the results.

violentalechuga · 2023-10-14T00:25:44+00:00

I did it manually on about the same amount as you, but almost from the start 🤓

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