I got off my ass and set up a vhost on a different webserver for the (bare) practicalzfs.com. It just redirects to discourse.practicalzfs.com for the moment, but that's enough to give it its own SSL certificate so nobody who types in the barename gets a cert mismatch error.
A #Canonical employee reported some out-of-tree code broke after something internal was renamed recently in #Linux 5.15.y – and as expected was told this is no regression at all, as the #LinuxKernel does not have a binary kernel interface, nor does it have a stable kernel interface:
Christoph Hellwig in a reply also wrote: "given that Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
2/ "Given that #Canonical ignores our #kernel licensing rules and tries to get away with it I'm not going to offer any help to Canonical at all."
If you wonder what this statement from esteemed #Linux developer Christoph Hellwig is about:
I'm not 100% sure, but I expect it's either the bundling of #Nvidia's proprietary kernel graphics driver module or the inclusion of the #openZFS#LinuxKernel modules in #Ubuntu - or more likely both.
Learning about the ZFS filesytem and how disk storage + encryption is handled on FreeBSD. This in anticipation of preparing an external USB hard drive for encrypted data storage (detached backup drive for 'home').
I have a mobile hard disk given to ZFS, one of the pool's datasets is encrypted, I can import the pool and access the decrypted data without the inconvenience of entering a passphrase.
Online RAID-Z Expansion has finally been merged into #OpenZFS!
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Thanks to sponsors @FreeBSDFoundation, iXsystems, and vStack, developers Matt Ahrens, Fedor Uporov, Stuart Maybee, Thorsten Behrens, Fmstrat, and Don Brady, and to reviewers Brian Behlendorf and Mark Maybee!