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• Post #4232984

  I rewrote the whole snapmount facility in #OpenZFS (Linux port). It's .. pretty full on. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18847

• Post #3684449

  Here's my talk from #EO2026, "the unreasonable cost of open source contribution". We all say we want lots of high quality open source software, but we don't like to pay for it. When we do talk about it, we rarely talk about the actual human on the end of it doing the work, and their wants, and needs, and aspirations and capabilities. We make the people invisible, and so we don't notice when they're burning out, or when they just disappear. I can only tell you about o...

• Post #3598344

  Earlier this year I told a story in a conference talk. This is the behind-the-scenes story of that story. Weirdly, they're both basically the same story. https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2026-07-05-conference-presentation-cost/

• Post #3242635

  In the last few weeks #OpenZFS has grown a unit test framework! This is different to the existing "ZTS" integration/functional test suite. That's running the zpool and zfs commands, creating and destroying pools, writing to files, and all sorts of "user-facing" stuff to confirm operation. This is more like what you'd expect - targeting specific internal functions and APIs, mocking objects and behaviours that sit "under" those, to confirm that they do what...

• Post #2622957

  Including community managers and technical writers is a MASSIVE step in the right direction. It may be hard as a programmer to get stable funding for open source work, but its even harder for not-programmer roles, and those are every bit as important for long term sustainability of our work. Pass this on to the community managers and technical writers in your life :) re https://mastodon.social/@sovtechfund/116165875657309832

• Post #2622956

  #OpenZFS, where we welcome m4 nonsense and cpp nonsense in equal measure. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18285

• Post #2622955

  Something new: a daily-or-so summary of my #OpenZFS nonsense, direct from the Github events firehose. https://zfs.house

• Post #2622954

  #OpenZFS now has much more detailed information about which varieties of Linux are supported. tl;dr: all kernel.org "longterm" series, all RHEL active & maintenance series (including clones), and Ubuntu LTS. (No actual change in practice, just trying to write it down a bit more clearly). https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/?tab=readme-ov-file#supported-kernels-and-distributions

• Post #2622953

  RE: https://oldbytes.space/@jonyesno/116366110590403972 Meet my good friend @jonyesno He's everything you’d want from the modern #sysadmin - seen everything from old mainframes to modern cloud infrastructure and every weird thing in between, and has a record of quickly coming up to speed and getting stuff done no matter what size or shape of computer or service you’ve got there. It’s a tricky time for IT organisations: everything is expensive and in short supply, so we’re all looking f...

• Post #2622952

  Needed a palate cleanser this week, so dusted off and pushed on some old experiments and made this tiny toy #OpenZFS dashboard. This is all it is, just displaying live pool traffic, but it was nice and fun to make!

• Post #2622951

  Tick tock, it's #OpenZFS on #Linux 7.1 o'clock. https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/18471

• Post #2622950

  #OpenZFS 2.4.2 and 2.3.7 are here. Includes support for #Linux 7.0 and a big pile of fixes. Available now from all good software retailers! https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.4.2 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.7