UNIX Social Cookbook


Here’s a cookbook of UNIX recipes. Most of them started as Changelogs to document work being done in and around UNIX Social Camps, and were later edited for clarity. Hopefully, they help!

Sep. 10, 2023

FreeBSD jails: ZFS inside

Integration of jail and zfs allow full delegation of dataset administration to a given jail! Now, don’t you wanna unleash the full power of zfs from within?

Sep. 5, 2023

FreeBSD jails: system tuning

We’ve got a fresh jail, yay! Let’s change some of those default settings, and see how one can share filesystems from the host system to make our lives better!

Aug. 30, 2023

FreeBSD jails: going native

Let’s deploy jails from scratch, using the native FreeBSD toolset, rather than resorting to the usual third-party management tools. Why? Because we can!

Aug. 8, 2023

ZFS: working with send/recv

zfs send|recv is some of the best fs magic out there: ever wanted to send an entire filesystem as a data stream? That’s exactly what this does. Let’s dive in!

May. 2, 2023

ZFS: {zpool,dataset} tuning

A lot of fine-tuning to specific hardware & workloads can be done with zfs: some at the zpool level, some being dataset specific. Let’s start with the basics!

Apr. 17, 2023

ZFS: pool layout

Say you have 8 disks, and you want to build a NAS? You’re probably wondering what zfs pool layout makes the most sense. Let’s review several options!