DeHackEd

So it's confirmed that some aspect of ABD (#2129) or an older version of it are at fault? I have a planned upgrade looming and want to know.

I don't know, but I swear this did happen. The only oddity I can think of is that, since it's a custom build of rrdtool, there may have been something...

One inconsistency in ZFS is that metadata is always compressed, but not counted as part of the ratio.

Holds are only good for snapshots though. While you could make a snapshot and put a hold on it to prevent the main dataset's destruction, that snapshot references data you...

This isn't a case of a time out. ZFS knows the disk is gone. This is a deliberate choice by the ZFS developers. If your pool can't survive due to...

This is intended behaviour to safeguard your dirty data and allow an administrator the chance to fix a broken machine while hot data is still available. The sync can't complete...

I believe the current ZFS-FUSE used a named socket, thus /dev/zfs would be a socket rather than a character device. This had some interesting properties, such as using SCM rights...

It's already implmented in userspace. `zdb` and `ztest` need it. Giving this project a try is on my bucket list. There's a lot of questions that come up from the...

I was thinking I could mount a FUSE filesystem on /dev/zvol and provide the volumes but as regular files instead of volumes. It would suffice for most needs. The loopback...