zfs
Is the bug collection of #NetBSD at https://gnats.netbsd.org/ available in some other form where there would be working links to each response?
-- does not look so; search for PR number "56944" on https://www.netbsd.org/support/query-pr.html goes to the URL listed below.
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Am reading currently https://gnats.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=56944 linked from https://wiki.netbsd.org/zfs/ ; of course #ZFS is involved, why else?
Scrolling the base64-encoded string fast enough to be near-blur is trippy!
In general #ZFS's space efficiency is better than traditional RAIDs, as long as recordsize/zvolsize is efficient on the array width.
The read performance, on the otherhand, is way worse.
Aside from the Nvidia, it's pretty similar to my now-dead 2017 HP Envy, and I moved the 480 GB SATA SSD and 16 GB RAM from the dead laptop to the working one.
Maybe it was the live environment, but I had trouble getting #LibreOffice installed with the graphical package manager. It went most of the way, but I had to use pkg from the terminal to finish the installation of the office suite. But after that, LO was able to create and open a password-protected document, unlike in my previous tests. I'm glad that the LO package was fixed for all #FreeBSD users. It took longer than would be ideal, but at least it happened.
Nothing has changed in terms of being able to control brightness and volume with the laptop keys meant for that purpose. They still don't work. I had to set brightness in the terminal. Volume does work with the slider in the panel. And audio was very good, unlike on my 2011 iMac 27-inch, where I only got the treble speakers and not the bass ones.
I can't remember how brightness worked on the iMac. I might have to boot into that one again to check that out. Booting to a USB drive on the iMac is annoying: You need to use a wired keyboard. It won't work with that machine's regular keyboard, a Logitech wireless. I couldn't find my generic USB keyboard, so I had to pull an old Mac keyboard out of the box I hope to ship it in when I sell it. It has one of those ADB to USB adapters from the '90s (??), and it surprisingly still works. I suspect the adapter is worth more than the keyboard.
Back to the HP Pavilion and GhostBSD, just like with the iMac, wireless networking was excellent. The graphical interface worked for both.
I would consider GhostBSD, but at this point I'm more interested in FreeBSD with Plasma. I wish there was a live image that I could try before doing an install. I ran #OpenBSD on the original HP laptop for a long time, and the brightness and volume keys worked OOTB, so it's possible for FreeBSD to do it. But for the shaky machines I have, I really want #ZFS in order to cope with crashes and power loss. My whole intent with FreeBSD is to explore ZFS.
FreeBSD hasn't been perfect, there are occasional momentary hangs when loading large websites (for some reason), and every now and then Wayland/sway will just completely lose the plot and force me to shut down...
But dang if #ZFS isn't freaking bulletproof.
Update: booted up with no video and no networking, lol. Reverted back to 14. :P
reboot -r
– no longer reboots the operating system. Not reproducible with FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE.
In the ALT text here (auto-detected):
Trying to mount root from zfs:maximal/ROOT/sixteen []...
FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT main-n286985-90ea8e89d9b7 GENERIC-NODEBUG amd64 1600019 1600019
<https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=range&q=90ea8e89d9b7&h=main>, I have not attempted to bisect.
Seeking RB_REROOT in GitHub finds two commits, the most recent (December 2025):
<https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/4453ec5b8716bc465ff5192986099dc75d1f2ce7>
– is that the regression, or am I way off? According to cgit, it has not been cherry-picked to releng/15.1 <https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/log/?qt=grep&q=reboot%3A+Default+to+a+clean+shutdown&h=releng%2F15.1> or stable/15.
![Screenshot of FreeBSD-CURRENT failing to reboot.
Trying to mount root from zfs:maximal/ROOT/sixteen [1]...](/proxy/post_attachment/1106806/402fc1e2f0.png "Screenshot of FreeBSD-CURRENT failing to reboot.
Trying to mount root from zfs:maximal/ROOT/sixteen [1]...")
New blog post!
I've only used it for a few weeks, however I've quickly come to ❤️ Void Linux.
I show the choices I make to create an encrypted Root-On-ZFS minimal Linux system with "just enough" to provide a solid foundation to build upon further: whether that be setting up a desktop, laptop, or server.
With Apple phasing out AFP in macOS 27 and Time Capsules officially reaching end-of-life, it's time to move network backups to proper SMB.
If you run a FreeBSD server, you can build a fast, rock-solid, and secure Time Machine target powered by ZFS and Samba - neatly isolated inside a FreeBSD jail using Bastille.
https://it-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/28/time-machine-freebsd-jail/
Keep your macOS backups running smoothly via SMBv3 (with full vfs_fruit support) and full dataset quota control on ZFS!
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