2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every two weeks we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.
2.5 Admins 267: Hoarding Cache
The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.
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Troubleshooting ZFS – Common Issues and How to Fix Them
News/discussion
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation
TikTok video pre-loads cause ‘massive data wastage’
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We were asked about dealing with a ZFS pool that won’t import.
Importing corrupted pool causes PANIC
Klara also has a work-around to get past the errors, but it is likely to result in data loss if there are overlapping segments, or the leaking of free space when segments are not entirely removed (not to be attempted without a developer present)
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