Crazy Macer Life

i tossed a couple 8TB disks into it that i had laying around to use for testing. after getting beadm set up and creating a boot environment i started off with cbsd. it works, but the way it works is super sloppy. even though it has been around for years the configuration is definitely not ‘proxmox easy’. i am going to try AppJail now since that is probably the only method that has decent active development.

as a note, i tried cbsd and then i also tried clonos to see if i could get a web ui for it. cbsd isn’t so bad but will leave you confused at times, but clonos is pretty alpha.

another thing i learned is to not migrate important datasets when they’re live. i installed freebsd on 2 usb drives (mirrored) but wanted to put the bulk of the data on the platters because running usb drives for anything production didn’t seem like a great idea. i wound up totally wrecking /usr and had to re-install to get it back. i noticed that the installer doesn’t have a method to use vdev 1 for booting and basic system barebones stuff, and vdev 2 for other. you have to finish installing and work your way in the console to migrate that stuff over. i managed it but this is probably something that should really be part of the installer.