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Migrating Proxmox/ZFS from raidz1 to mirrors

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The Proxmox box at my home is also being used as a NAS, with Samba and NFS doing the sharing. It had 4 WD Red 6TB PMR drives, in a raidz1 configuration, giving me a net capacity of 18TB (give or take a few).

Moving docker to a VM

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In the original design of my Proxmox box I opted for running the docker containers straight on the host. For a lot of reasons, this is actually a Bad IdeaTM, and it’s been one of my goals to migrate these to a VM at some point.

Advent of Code

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It’s that time of the year again… Time for the Advent Of Code! This year I’ll have a go with Go - I’ve never written anything in it, so it’s going to be a challenge!

Adding a SLOG to ZFS

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I’ve noticed that quite a few of my VM workloads and NFS workloads are rather slow on my Proxmox box, due to the facts that it’s sitting on spinning rust (also known as hard disk drives) a lot of those are synchronous writes