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2.5 Admins 273: Reliability Tracking

November 13, 2025 Joe

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Allan tells us about the recent OpenZFS Summit including inconsistent JBODs, more details about mixed disk sizes in ZFS with AnyRaid, an upcoming standard that allows you to keep using partially dead hard drives, Seagate’s roadmap for 50 and 100 TB drives, and NVMe connected mechanical drives. Plus using a separate mini PC for work.

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Building Enterprise-Grade Storage on Proxmox with ZFS

December Webinar: The 12 Days of ZFS: Tips, Tricks, and Treats

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We were asked about using a separate mini PC for work.

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Ask The Hosts – Episode 30

November 12, 2025 Joe

All Shows Ask The Hosts

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The skills we wish we had (but accept we never will), what we are most scared of and if we’d confront it for money, and whether free will exists. With May, Chris, and Gary from Linux After Dark.

Patrons got this this in their feed two weeks ago.

Linux Matters 68: Frameworks, Filesystems and Fixes

November 11, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Matters

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 29:19 — 24.0MB)

In this episode:

Alan dusts off his newsletter.
Martin encrypts his new work Framework laptop without LVM, but with --cipher=aes-xts-plain64 --hash=sha256 --iter-time=1000 --key-size=256 --pbkdf-memory=1048576 --sector-size=4096, and without ZFS, but with btrfs and compress=lzo discard=async noatime rw space_cache=v2 ssd.
Mark gets help with his Moodle noodling from MDLCode.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 359

November 10, 2025 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 21:48 — 17.5MB)

What we all learned at the recent Ubuntu Summit including open source as a counter to insular nationalism, Canonical taking RISC-V very seriously, TPM-backed full disk encryption getting a lot easier, what the post-AI-bubble will probably look like, and more.

We mentioned the Rubik Pi 3.

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Linux After Dark – Episode 108

November 7, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux After Dark

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Some of our Linux hot takes including the LTS release model being broken, Linux media being out of touch, social media being the root of most evil, and people being too angry and defensive about the software they use.

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2.5 Admins 272: NVMe Surprise

November 6, 2025 Joe

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Why you should seriously consider buying refurbished hard drives, why drives might be lasting longer than they once did, Jim’s M.2 NVMe drive died at an inopportune moment, using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

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Advanced ZFS Dataset Management: Snapshots, Clones, and Bookmarks

November Webinar: ZFS Mastery: The Bits They Don’t Put in the Man Pages

News/discussion

Do Refurbished Hard Disks Make Sense For Your Home NAS Server?

Are Hard Drives Getting Better? Let’s Revisit the Bathtub Curve

Jim’s M.2 NVMe nightmare

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We were asked about using multiple partitions on disks with ZFS.

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Late Night Linux – Episode 358

November 3, 2025 Joe

All Shows Late Night Linux

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 35:32 — 28.5MB)

Mark Shuttleworth recently spoke to us about what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, and more. Plus in the news: Ubuntu Unity needs help to survive, the Python Software Foundation turns down a large government grant, Fedora allows AI contributions, SUSE goes all in on AI, and KDE hits its fundraising goal.

News

Linux Matters

Regarding Ubuntu Unity and a call for help

The Python Software Foundation has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program

Fedora agrees policy allowing AI-assisted contributions

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16 – AI-Ready, Long-Term Support

SUSE Goes Agentic: The First Linux That Thinks for Itself

Awesome fundraiser news: €53,000 raised!

Mark Shuttleworth

Joe sat down with Mark at the recent Ubuntu Summit to discuss what he’s apprehensive and excited about in the tech world, what we should look forward to in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, and more.

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Linux Dev Time – Episode 136

November 2, 2025 Joe

All Shows Linux Dev Time

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 27:06 — 22.0MB)

Some of the languages that we love and why we love them. It’s not just Rust, honest!

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Hybrid Cloud Show – Episode 42

October 31, 2025 Joe

All Shows Hybrid Cloud Show

Podcast (all): Download (Duration: 24:11 — 19.9MB)

Shane has teething issues with his Kubernetes homelab, Sean ran a bootable containers workshop at Texas Linux Fest, and the case for enterprise rolling distros.

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2.5 Admins 271: Dead Internet

October 30, 2025 Joe

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Why you should keep your Baseboard Management Controller off the network, ZFS is hard to defeat with a zip bomb, how bad the Internet bot problem probably is, and building a small home server cluster.

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Discussion

Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware

When a decompression ZIP bomb meets ZFS: 19 PB written on a 15 TB disk

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We were asked about building a small home server cluster.