"They cranked the OpenZFS version up to 5000, leaving Oracle plenty of space to add new version numbers--as if Oracle would EVER innovate rather than merely exploit acquired intellectual property." #nonotryagain #openzfsmastery

" #FreeBSD shows netmasks in hexadecimal, but that’s only because it’s for REAL sysadmins."

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"If you need to use BIOS booting with ZFSBootMenu, check the project documentation. I'm not going through it because I live in 2026." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

I should probably put a link to the book sponsor page, but promoting #twistedPresents has devoured my promo spoons.

"If you have no ability to add actual storage, sparse volumes are like cocaine: they let you avoid an immediate capacity problem while creating a much larger future problem. Avoid them." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

"We assume that your disk hardware is identical within each pool: if your mirror has one NVMe and one iSCSI disk, our advice is worthless and so is your pool." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain

"NAT offers all the security and protection of a cottage cheese condom." #writing #nonotryagain #n4sa2e

Today in #openzfsmastery:

"GEOM lets you get clever with your storage. Don’t be clever. Put your ZFS on top of a partition and leave it the hell alone." #nonotryagain

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"The important thing is that you pick one naming scheme and stick with it, treating violations like a 1980s evangelical discovering their child's secret Dungeons & Dragons stash." #nonotryagain #openzfsmastery

That's a wrap on the disks chapter. I'd appreciate your backing as I write this book.

"If I have to explain config options like $dbhost, $dbname, $dbuser, and $dbpass to you, you should NOT be running your own mail server. Give this book to someone competent."
#ryoms #nonotryagain

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"Many other people have developed ACME clients. For Unix systems, I recommend dehydrated. For Windows, I recommend installing Unix." #n4sa2e #nonotryagain