Tag: zfs on Linux
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Recent Battle to Use Thunderbird
I am a daily Ubuntu user, and I’ve been been one since 10.04. The use of Snaps in 22.04 took me for a very unhappy drive down frustration lane recently. Around February 2023, both Firefox and Thunderbird appeared with display rendering problems, like the were using bad video driver code. But also, Thunderbird became unkillable.…
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ZFS Rebuild Script
I’ve rebuilt my zfs modules often enough that I’ve written a script to do a clean build that should avoid old kernel modules and old libraries. #!/bin/bash sudo find /lib/modules -depth -type d -iname “spl” -exec rm -rf {} \; sudo find /lib/modules -depth -type d -iname “zfs” -exec rm -rf {} \; sudo find…
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ZFS on Linux machine
Here is my ZFS on Linux story, and some of you might have seen these pictures when I started this project last year: I recycled an old Athlon system from work and placed an 35 Watt AMD A2 processor with 8GB 1600 ram on an Asus mobo in it. I name my home systems after…