2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 248: NASty Pi
TrueNAS drops FreeBSD but there’s a community fork, the illusive ZFS raw send bug that affected encrypted datasets is finally identified and fixed, why the Raspberry Pi doesn’t make a great NAS, and when to use the zpool checkpoint feature.
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Maintaining FreeBSD in a Commercial Product – Why Upstream Contributions Matter
News/discussion
TrueNAS 25.04 drops FreeBSD: “Fangtooth” only with GNU/Linux base
FreeBSD fans rally round zVault upstart
ZFS raw-send corruption bug fixed
5 things I regret about using my Raspberry Pi as a NAS
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