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zfs one pool error

I have zpool with name zroot and zroot has 4 pool when electricity down system reboots and than i saw some error with 1 pool: Solaris: Warning: can`t open object for zroot/var/crash log_sysevent: ...
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FreeBSD: Remove symlinks in devfs

Background I have been rebuilding a small home NAS. This server represents my first 'real' foray into the world of server administration and it has taught me quite a bit already. Originally, the ...
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Is there a way to create cow-copies in ZFS?

I am trying to make cow-copies of some files/directories, but of the several ways I know of, all seem sub-optimal. For example, btrfs can, with the use of cp --reflink=auto quickly generate ...
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FreeBSD + ZFS + Encryption ? Alternatives ? Suggestions?

I would like to create a dedicated physical server which will work as a NAS & fileserver inside my LAN (as well as through VPN). However I need to fully encrypt the drives (both the system ones ...
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FreeBSD zfs timeout errors

I have FreeBSD 8.2 with ZFS v28. 8 cpu core, 16Gb ram. Two disk drives (1.5Tb WD Green) on zfs mirror raid. My system strangely uses memory. With alot of free (wired) memory it start to use swap and ...
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FreeBSD zfs create gpt

How can i create gpt marks on working system. NAME STATE READ WRITE CKSUM zroot ONLINE 0 0 0 mirror-0 ONLINE 0 0 0 ad4p3 ONLINE ...
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slow samba seek performance

I am using FreeBSD 9.0 RC3 (PCBSD distro) with samba 3.4.14. I am trying to access portions of several large (4 - 10 GB) files over samba using seek commands, and I am seeing that calls to the front ...
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adjust zfs settings on freebsd 9

What's the proper way on FreeBSD 9 to tune ZFS parameters such as vfs.zfs.arc_max and vfs.zfs.vdev.cache.size? I've seen references to /boot/loader.conf, /boot/kernel.conf and /etc/sysctl.conf but I ...
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Allowed and safe characters for ZFS filesystem in FreeBSD

Which characters are allowed and safe for ZFS file system name? Are this characters only ASCII or UTF-8 is supported? '@' is not allowed because it is reserved for snapshots. PS: I play with FreeBSD ...