Recent content by cyruspy

hello, sure, I'm happy to receive PRs and see it being used. I've addressed the one you've reported.

I had SSD for OS, tried to go the ZFS on bare disks. Failed miserably due to a kernel bug in 7.0. Move to HDD only, 3+3 RAID10 instead of RAIDZ2 (4+2). Went back to hardware RAID1 for boot.

Thanks, will try to split the boot hardware RAID and use a ZFS mirrored partition as special device.

Hello, I know it has been mentioned several times a special device backed by ssd is mandatory when using HDDs for data to have a bearable solution. If I don't have SSD but RAM is available (128GB), could ARC save me here?

I asked directly, answers were very odd. Do we need our own virtio signed drivers distribution?

It seems the original signed driver are stale. Fix was included in https://github.com/virtio-win/kvm-guest-drivers-windows/releases/tag/mm315 "pre-release and untested binary available"

Oh, yes. The 1:1 CLI native client for Windows is in progress. The next challenge is to fund the usd 300 yearly certificate to make Smartscreen and SecureBoot happy (MSI installer + NBD kernel driver). While thinking beyond that point is that I thought of follow up options: A- small system bar...

Hello, I would like to share the initiative of packaging the Linux client for different distributions as a nice opportunity to give back to the PBS creators and the community. I've repackaged the original supported client in native RPM/DEB packages for: Install Replace <REPO> with your...

Which distribution are you running?

Hello, Much to my dismay, I've came across a heavy Windows usage environment, with not all running on PVE (yet?). I would like to write a native Windows client, with proper signage and a msi installer to simplify its lifecycle. Also, I believe we need a scheduler to centralize management of...

Hmm, I didn't see that one coming I've just shrank my original OS rpool to 50GB. Will think about it. PS: does it mean the datastore will be just a folder somewhere and not a different pool, correct?

Yes, you are correct about the scenario. In a "let's design this and purchase this" scenario I would purchase dedicated flash storage for metadata. Is sharing the small boot disks what concerns me.

I'm not sure I'm following. This machine is only for PBS, live data are in other computers.

Hello!, While deploying Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) for personal backups (NAS files and PVE test VMs), I noticed that SSDs are preferred for the datastore. Since this is a "cost-effective" scenario, I'll have to use leftover mechanical disks. Would it be possible to use the two SSD boot drives...

Currently proxmox-backup-client is a stateless, outbound-only CLI, and PBS operates purely as a passive storage endpoint. For non-PVE / standalone Linux hosts, backups must be scheduled locally per-host (e.g. cron or systemd timers). This creates operational gaps: - No central control or...