Here’s a cookbook of UNIX recipes. Most of them started as Changelogs to
document work being done in and around UNIX Social Camps, and were later
edited for clarity. Hopefully, they help!
Jul. 26, 2025
Why should one use
OpenBSD, or at least take a look at it? We asked
Joel to share his love for the pufferfish with us!
Sep. 10, 2024
Integration of jail and zfs allow full delegation of dataset administration to a given jail! Now, don’t you wanna unleash the full power of zfs from within?
Sep. 1, 2024
We’ve got a fresh jail, yay! Let’s change some of those default settings, and see how one can share filesystems from the host system to make our lives better!
Aug. 30, 2024
Let’s deploy jails from scratch, using the native FreeBSD toolset, rather than resorting to the usual third-party management tools. Why? Because we can!
Aug. 8, 2023
zfs send|recv is some of the best fs magic out there: ever wanted to send an entire filesystem as a data stream? That’s exactly what this does. Let’s dive in!
May. 2, 2023
A lot of fine-tuning to specific hardware & workloads can be done with zfs: some at the zpool level, some being dataset specific. Let’s start with the basics!
Apr. 17, 2023
Say you have 8 disks, and you want to build a NAS? You’re probably wondering what zfs pool layout makes the most sense. Let’s review several options!