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To celebrate the 256 milestone we devote the whole episode to explaining why we use ZFS. We explain about data safety, data retention, data portability, and ease of administration.
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Klara ZFS Basecamp – Central Resource for Everything ZFS
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Microsoft offers Windows 10 updates in return for your settings data, Denmark wants to protect against deepfakes using copyright, someone is wrong on the Internet about RAID, and getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
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Microsoft’s free updates for Windows 10 draw criticism
Denmark plans to thwart deepfakers by giving everyone copyright over their own features
Why I Stopped Using RAID on My Plex Media Server
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We were asked about getting a sysadmin job in your late 40s.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 28:47 — 23.4MB)
A vulnerability in sudo brings up concerns about feature-creep, and makes us consider alternatives. Plus Broadcom starts auditing VMware customers, and how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
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Disaster Recovery with ZFS: A Practical Guide
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Vulnerability Advisory: Sudo chroot Elevation of Privilege
VMware perpetual license holder receives audit letter from Broadcom
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We were asked about how to decide which outbound ports to open on a large network’s firewall.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:55 — 22.7MB)
Jim is concerned that we might not see another next-gen filesystem that can compete with ZFS, no matter how much we all want one. Plus whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
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ZFS Performance Tuning – Optimizing for your Workload
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Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
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We were asked whether you should switch to third-party firmware on your router.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:37 — 24.0MB)
Nintendo cuts off Switches that dare to play backed up games, more Microsoft AI exploits, why you shouldn’t regularly spin down hard drives, and securing applications on a home server.
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Reliable ZFS Storage on Commodity Hardware – A Cost-Efficient, Data-Sure Storage Solution
Klara co-hosted a webinar with TrueNAS about ZFS Fast Dedup
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Switch 2 users report online console bans after running personal game “backups”
Intellectual Property & Piracy FAQ | Nintendo Support
I learned the hard way to never spin down your NAS hard drives
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We were asked about securing applications on a home server.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 31:54 — 25.9MB)
SharePoint is exploitable by Microsoft’s AI, NIST proposes a new metric for exploited vulnerabilities, SBCs that look cool for a mini NAS and a router, and setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.
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Exploiting Copilot AI for SharePoint
NIST proposes new metric to gauge exploited vulnerabilities
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We were asked about setting up a first NAS with 4 disks.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 32:26 — 26.3MB)
Google bypasses the usual channels to distrust two certificate authorities, Meta’s new escalation in the privacy arms race, Allan gives us the inside details of a new mixed-disk-size ZFS RAID feature, and moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.
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The Overlooked Complexity of Firmware Security in the IoT Era
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Google Chrome to Distrust Two Certificate Authorities Over Compliance and Conduct Issues
Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
Introducing ZFS AnyRaid, Sponsored by Eshtek
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We were asked about moving from UniFi gear to TP-Link.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:21 — 23.8MB)
Locating people with just a phone call, Google forces a change to Let’s Encrypt certificates, yet another example of a “lifetime” subscription being cut short, connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
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What We’ve Learned Supporting FreeBSD in Production (So You Don’t Have To)
News
O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call
Ending TLS Client Authentication Certificate Support in 2026 – Let’s Encrypt
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
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We were asked about connecting drives to a small form factor machine, and managing ssh keys with LDAP.
SAS Expanders, Build Your Own JBOD DAS Enclosure and Save – Iteration 1
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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
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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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We were asked about the zpool checkpoint feature.
Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 33:46 — 27.4MB)
The basic computer science problems that still remain unsolvable, why you shouldn’t trust AI to tune ZFS (or answer any admin questions), and setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.
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Why You Can’t Trust AI to Tune ZFS
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We were asked about setting up a check-in system for a group of friends.
