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vermaden @[email protected] · 2026-06-17 · 19:57 UTC

New 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗘𝗟𝗜 𝗘𝗻𝗰𝗿𝘆𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗕𝗵𝘆𝘃𝗲 𝗩𝗠 𝗭𝗙𝗦 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗸 [Expand GELI Encrypted Bhyve VM ZFS Disk] article on vermaden.wordpress.com.

https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/06/17/expand-geli-encrypted-bhyve-vm-zfs-disk/

#verblog #freebsd #zfs #openzfs #resize #geli #bhyve #vm

#verblog #freebsd #zfs #openzfs #resize #geli

― @[email protected] · 2026-05-16 · 03:56 UTC

Seven years of running FreeBSD on ThinkPads alongside Linux — lessons I'd give my younger self

<https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/seven_years_of_running_freebsd_on_thinkpads/> @Darknessraptor

＂I daily-drive Linux at work and FreeBSD on my personal ThinkPads (T480 & P52 currently). Both laptops and both operating systems, every day. I'm the kind of person who reads freebsd-update output and Phoronix benchmarks in the same hour.

＂Recently saw the "is FreeBSD really that goated" thread and it brought back the timeline of my own journey. Started with a rough —call it version 0.9 — build that barely had X11 working, evolved through five iterations, landed on something I'd call "production-stable personal desktop" around version 2.0 on FreeBSD 15.0 with a heavily customized MATE, ZFS boot environments, BastilleBSD jails for microservices, WireGuard tunnels and PF.

＂If I could send a packet back in time to my earlier self, here's what I'd put in the payload: …＂

Postscript: @Darknessraptor (quoted above) has joined Mastodon.

The image here is not his, it's for <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1tedyva/comment/om1t5mg/> because we can all agree that em dashes make scintillating conversation.

#goated #X11 #Wales #FreeBSD #BSD #Linux #ZFS #OpenZFS #Beastie #daemon #MyLittlePony #unicorn #dolphin #rainbow #IBM #Lenovo #BastilleBSD #WireGuard #AI #purple

#goated #x11 #wales #freebsd #bsd #linux

― @[email protected] · 2024-11-17 · 10:52 UTC

@nixCraft nearly all suitably encrypted. No FDE.

OpenZFS encryption for:

* the sensitive part of a mobile hard disk drive

* three low-spec USB memory sticks that add around 145 GiB persistent removable L2ARC to a circa 2014 HP ZBook with 32 G memory and a ~1 TB internal HDD.

GELI for 16 G swap.

GELI for 915 G /

tmpfs for /tmp/

<https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/10256>

「… blocks in the L2ARC have the exact same on-disk representation as they do in the main pool. …」

geli(8) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8&manpath=freebsd-release> – automatically configured when FreeBSD was installed.

tmpfs(4) <https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tmpfs&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-current> (FreeBSD 15.0-CURRENT)

#FreeBSD #L2ARC #ZFS #OpenZFS #encryption #USB #memorystick #flash #flashdrive #mobile #GELI