Earlier this week I attempted to make the maintainers of FreeNAS/TrueNAS aware that their ZStd compression scheme in ZFS causes data corruption over time. I've verified that this happens on physical hardware, as well as virtual machines, in several configurations. Despite that, ixSystems simply closed the report because the affected live machine was in a virtual machine. Leaving me with the only option I have: putting it on my blog for everyone to see.

In the previous post I talked about the setup for the Host machine, and this continues from there. This time it's time for setting up the virtual machines themselves.

As my upgrade to an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is finally complete, I had my old AMD ThreadRipper 1950X left over. While it wasn't the perfect gaming or compute CPU, it deserved to live on for pretty much solo-ing the entire workload I've given it up until now.