Sure, kid.

How much slop could a slop machine machine if a slop machine could machine slop

@stefano you will be happy to hear NYC*BUG had a first time visitor, a college student was *absolutely delighted* to grab the last BSD Café sticker!

@a what features of Backblaze? Maybe https://www.tarsnap.com/?

PDX privacy wonks! The Portland City Council will do a second reading of an ordinance to establish a City Data and Privacy Office this Thursday 2/5 at 2 pm - https://www.portland.gov/council/agenda#toc-thursday-february-5-2026-2-00-pm

If you want to have a say about the ordinance, it looks like you have time to submit a written comment.

#PDX #privacy #Portland

@dexter

> useless for use on a live system

More than useless, the `unmount -f` option in the script unceremoniously unmounts all your live datasets and the system suddenly-yet-unsurprisingly-when-you-know-what-it-did falls over. 😆 (it does the same for any attached GELI devices)

That one took multiple attempts and finally reading source before I figured out why the installer "hung" 🤦

@gumnos Well. Being on whatever kick I’m on… I mentioned the various desired “targets” and added an entry to the Foundation’s incubation spreadsheet.

The fact that bsdinstall recently sprouted packaged base support (in Lua no less) is encouraging.

The 2026 FreeBSD Developer Summit will take place alongside BSDCan on June 17–18, 2026, and we're now accepting proposals.

Suggested topics include networking performance, laptop support, ports and packaging infrastructure, CI and testing, power management, and development tools.

📅 Proposal deadline: March 25, 2026
📧 Submit proposals or questions: devsummit@FreeBSD.org

We look forward to receiving proposals and to another productive Developer Summit at BSDCan.

@gumnos Feel free to comment.

It appears Linux root-on-ZFS is a mess. No standard way to do it. Kernel updates require recompiling ZFS. Boot environments are a cornucopia of constantly evolving hacks.

If you're actually using #ZFS on root, on #Debian, what's your preferred hack to make that happen? #sysadmin

I suspect #openzfsmastery might need to assume root on extFS and data on ZFS, leaving root-on-ZFS for the advanced user or a terminal chapter. :flan_disappointed:

@michaelgalassi Is it a root on ZFS system, allowing you to test under a boot environment of a newer version of FreeBSD?

@gumnos I added a comment about the shortcomings of bsdinstall/bsdconfig.

@gumnos That patch appears to be upstream and I have noted it as such. Close it?

@gumnos Yeah the installer has a "jail" option (not compatible with "auto") and for me did things like "step one: export all pools" which very much made is useless for use on a live system.

REST ASSURED there is bsdconfig for this but... I am not sure it can touch storage.

Does anyone want to help make the canonical FreeBSD installer more useful for installing to Jails and virtual machines?

@mwl 😢

I've moved all my home bulk data storage to ZFS (https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page) over the last month. (If you haven't used it, it's awesome. More than you're thinking. More than that. It's worth learning.)

So, I'm in deep-learning mode and sometimes get stuck, right? *Every* time I get stuck or confused about something in ZFS there is a Klara Systems article which explains things clearly and with technical rigor. Love it. Huge thanks to Klara folks for sharing their expertise so widely!
https://klarasystems.com/articles/?topics=zfs

#FreeBSD #ZFS

Bryan Cantrill on Jails and Solaris Zones - originally posted on Mar 3, 2016

📺 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U

#paperswelove #video

@itsfoss
I know Torvalds is at the origin of git.
But can we start to spotlight Junio Hamano who has been actually developing git for 20 years ?

#MomOps

Have any open #FreeBSD PRs/bug reports?

Please review if they’re still valid.