Monthly Archive: March 2025

Computers / ZFS

Large ZFS File Server

I have seen a couple questions about ZFS and TrueNAS scaling over on the TrueNAS forums and figured I would recount a large file server I designed and implemented using ZFS back in 2008 or so. The customer had a requirement for one large SMB share with a capacity for well over a million files and 50TiB. Remember, this is 2008 and large hard disk drives (HDD) were 1TB. The only filesystem we found that would scale that far and not have serious performance issues was ZFS. They only needed 3 or 4 users accessing it at one time. The...

March 19, 2025
Computers / Linux / TrueNAS / ZFS

TrueNAS SCALE 24.10 Failed to Find boot-pool After Installation

The Problem I have been using FreeNAS / TrueNAS for over a decade. In the past year I moved my home server from CORE (FreeBSD based) to SCALE (Linux based) and have been very happy. I moved my backup server from 24.4 to 24.10 and ran into an interesting issue. I did not do an upgrade in place, I did a fresh installation. During the first boot after the installation from USB the system hung with an error that it could not mount the boot-pool and dropped me into an Ubuntu initramfs recovery shell. Troubleshooting this, I manually tried importing...

March 8, 2025
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