JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·2d ago · 14 min readThe error pointed at the GPU. The culprit was the HBA. — a Proxmox passthrough recoveryThe plan looked textbook. PCIe passthrough an NVIDIA RTX A4000 from a Proxmox 8 host into an Ubuntu 24.04 VM, giving a Filecoin sealing worker direct GPU access for the compute phases that need it. VT00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 13 · 12 min readRecovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single diskThe same outage that suspended the first pool also took down a second pool on the same box in a different, harder way. That's the piece the suspended-pool recovery closed by pointing at. This is that 00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Aug 6 · 9 min readAfter a TrueNAS ISO reinstall — the two things that broke that no one warned me aboutThe TrueNAS SCALE machine that runs my SMB shares was in trouble. Windows clients had stopped seeing the shares reliably — intermittent at first, then completely. When I dropped to the shell to check,00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 23 · 9 min readTwo TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers. Same rack. One's on CORE, one's on SCALE. If someone asked me why, the honest answer isn't a design decision. It's a series of arrivals — one workload trigger at a time, each land00
JJJozzieTechinjjozzietech.hashnode.dev·Jul 16 · 12 min readOPNsense on bare metal — 18 months as the only perimeterFor most of the homelab's life, there wasn't a firewall. The ISP router did what ISP routers do — NAT out, block unsolicited inbound, don't ask hard questions. That's not zero security. It's just not 00
