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OpenZFS – OpenZFS, Your Data and the Challenge of Ransomware

As commercial storage becomes increasingly expensive, more and more of the Education vertical is looking at Open Source solutions for storage. In this article, we discuss the value of OpenZFS for Universities and how system administrators can best leverage it to their benefit.

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OpenZFS – Comparing Modern Open-Source Storage Solutions

Discover how OpenZFS provides scalable storage architecture for petabytes of data with flexible storage configurations, RAID levels & disk addition/removal.

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Managing Disk Arrays on FreeBSD/TrueNAS Core

Discover strategies to manage disk arrays on FreeBSD and related platforms/operating systems. Ensure device health & easy replacements with these valuable tips.

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Sysadmin Series – How to Catch a Bitcoin Miner

What first looked like some CPU oddity in a monitoring graph became a full-fledged hunt for a bitcoin miner. Figuring out what happened and how they were operating is part of the investigation. Collecting evidence to make a case soon became akin to a detective story.

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OpenZFS – Data Security vs. Integrity

Data security is about preventing data from being disclosed, ensuring that only the correct people can access it. Data integrity ensures the data is correct, that it has not become corrupt due to hardware failure or other issues. With ZFS, you can get both.

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Improving Replication Security With OpenZFS Delegation

OpenZFS privilege delegation is an extremely powerful tool that enables system administrators to carefully provide unprivileged users the ability to manage ZFS datasets and zvols at an extremely precise level —with much finer control than would be possible with generic security tools like sudo or doas.

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Tuning recordsize in OpenZFS

For many people, tuning OpenZFS isn’t really necessary—performance on the conservative default settings is more than ample to get what they need done. However, To get the best performance, matching the recordsize to your application provides a large performance boost. Learn how to match your dataset to your workload.

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Should I Upgrade to OpenZFS 2.1?

Beginning with version 13.0, FreeBSD supports the long-anticipated OpenZFS native encryption. If you’ve used FreeBSD’s GELI encryption in the past, you may wonder if switching to OpenZFS native encryption makes sense. Check out the differences between GELI encryption and OpenZFS native encryption, and the main benefits of native encryption, let’s take a look at how to create an encrypted database and reroot to an encrypted database.

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The FreeBSD Boot Process

Let’s talk about the FreeBSD boot process. It is very robust and complex, as it is well-thought. Find out what are the differences when you boot from UEFI or legacy BIOS, or from GPT and MBR partitioning schemes. Learn what happens when you use ZFS or UFS filesystem.

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OpenZFS Native Encryption

Discover OpenZFS native encryption in FreeBSD 13.0. Compare it with GELI encryption and learn to create and reroot encrypted databases.

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