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FreeBSD After Hours AMA: Post-BSDCan Recap

FreeBSD After Hours AMA: Post-BSDCan Recap

Following BSDCan 2026, join Allan Jude and Kyle Evans for a live Ask Me Anything session covering the biggest FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and infrastructure takeaways from the conference.

Understanding AnyRAID: Architecture, Use-Cases, and Tradeoffs

Traditional RAID-Z wastes usable capacity when drive sizes don’t match. AnyRAID changes that. Join Allan Jude and Jon Panozzo to discuss how mixed-drive layouts unlock more usable storage, expand pools more flexibly, and the tradeoffs administrators should understand before deployment.

ZFS Fast Dedup for Proxmox VE 9.x: Technical Implementation Guide

ZFS Fast Dedup in Proxmox VE 9.x, powered by OpenZFS 2.3, introduces a bounded and predictable deduplication model using DDT quotas, prefetch, and prune operations. This guide explains architecture, enabling steps, sizing methodology, and workload selection for production deployments.

ARC and L2ARC Sizing on Proxmox

ARC and L2ARC sizing in Proxmox is a capacity-planning problem, not a tuning exercise. This article explains how to budget RAM for guests and ZFS, set deterministic ARC limits, and decide when L2ARC improves performance—and when it adds unnecessary complexity.

Pool and VDEV Topology for Proxmox Workloads

Designing ZFS pool and VDEV topology is a foundational decision for Proxmox performance, resiliency, and operability. This article explains how mirrors, RAID-Z, SLOG, ARC/L2ARC, and recordsize choices shape real-world VM workloads—and how to align them with Proxmox’s native ZFS integration.