2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi

2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi

Author: The Late Night Linux Family May 22, 2025 Duration: 30:38

TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the elusive ZFS send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.

 

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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter

 

News/discussion

TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base

FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart

ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed

5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS

 

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