CCharles Hartmann·Oct 15RAID is not a backup: the 3-2-1 rule, honestlyWhat actually counts as a copy under the 3-2-1 rule, why a RAID mirror or a snapshot only protects against one kind of failure, and the one-page inven5 min read·homelabtherightway.hashnode.dev
JJJozzieTech·Sep 24Five layers, one migration — what a fabric cutover exposed about storageA healthy signal at one layer of the storage stack doesn't imply a healthy signal at the next. Five layers, five failures, five validation steps.16 min read·jjozzietech.hashnode.dev
JJJozzieTech·Aug 13Recovering a ZFS pool with a missing RAIDZ1 vdev — without wiping a single diskSame outage, same box, a harder failure. A whole RAIDZ1 vdev showed unavailable. The GUI said wipe or reassign. Reading the ZFS labels said otherwise.12 min read·jjozzietech.hashnode.dev
JJJozzieTech·Jul 23Two TrueNAS servers, one rack — the CORE-and-SCALE split I never designedTwo TrueNAS servers, one rack. Not a design decision — a decade of workload pivots. On when consolidation makes sense, and when it doesn't.9 min read·jjozzietech.hashnode.dev
JJJozzieTech·Jul 9How I got a suspended TrueNAS pool back online without replacing a single diskAn 11-disk RAIDZ1 vdev showed multiple faulted drives and one member removed after a rack outage. Two commands got the pool back — no disk swaps.9 min read·jjozzietech.hashnode.dev1
MMichael Miroshnichenko·Jul 1Data Recovery in ZFS: Datasets, ZVOLs, Snapshots, and Virtual DisksA practical guide to recovering files, ZVOLs, snapshots, and virtual machine disks from damaged or inaccessible ZFS storage9 min read·hetman-software.hashnode.dev
AAlok Chatterji·Dec 1, 2025Building a Resilient Homelab Storage Solution with TrueNASDiscover how to build a resilient, budget-friendly homelab storage solution with TrueNAS and Proxmox for secure data and efficient backups7 min read·read.darkshield.co.in1
Ttripleo·Oct 25, 2025Why open source things (pt 2)?Why Linux? Because it's free. And also because it's better than all the other free stuff. Because hippies like it. Because the other stuff doesn’t work yet. Definition of hippie: the kind that like tech but are not your bros Definition of other stuff...1 min read·tripleo-open-source.hashnode.dev
JJoba·Sep 20, 2025Proxmox 9.0.8 儲存類型與 Ceph 機制筆記這篇文章完整介紹 Proxmox 支援的各種儲存後端，包括 ZFS、Ceph、LVM、iSCSI 等，並深入比較 Ceph 與 HDFS、RAID5 架構的差異，以及 Ceph 如何在 Proxmox 中實現類似 vMotion 的高可用性功能，適合 IT 工程師與自建實驗室研究者閱讀。2 min read·shyit.hashnode.dev1
JJoba·Sep 20, 2025Notes on Proxmox 9.0.8 Storage Types and Ceph MechanismThis article provides a comprehensive overview of all storage backends supported by Proxmox, including ZFS, Ceph, LVM, iSCSI, and more. It dives into the di4 min read·shyit.hashnode.dev1
