Archive for May, 2023
pfSense – Replacing a failed ZFS Disk
by firestorm_v1 on May.04, 2023, under Miscellaneous
While the future of pfSenseCE and pfSense+ are still very much in the air, it at least brought us the option to use ZFS mirroring for hardware redundancy. Good news is that it works well, I didn’t even know the drive had failed for several months until I had to powercycle the router and heard the click of death. Bad news, it’s not really adequately documented anywhere how to do this and it’s not for the faint of heart!
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