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  • You sure that’s what is happening, and it’s not just mounting a different snapshot/dataset being mounted “on top” ?

    I’ve seen it happen, which is why I ask. Assume the root dataset is named pool0 and has set0 set1 and set1/set2 as child datasets.

    Their mount points are as follows:

    /pool0/set0

    /pool0/set1

    /pool0/set1/set2

    Now, if somehow, say set2 gets unmounted.temporarily, and you save files to /pool0/set1/set2 while the data set is not mounted, it’ll actually put those files in the set1 dataset, under the set2 directory.

    But, when you mount the pool0/set1/set2 dataset again, the files under the set1 dataset are hidden by the set2 child.

    Am I explaining it well enough for you to follow along?

    Make sure you don’t have some similar situation by temporarily unmounting any nested datasets and ls’ing their mount points.




  • My network actually ran better when my OpnSense was virtualized on a Proxmox server running atop a Dell Optiplex 790 MT from like 2013, than it is currently on a bare metal Sophos SG-135v2.

    But that is because the sophos has 8 ports. And all 8 are a separate interface, so to use them as a switch requires bridging 7 of the 8.

    And that slows things down tremendously. I really just need an 8 port switch in there, I guess.

    The upshot is, the sophos came with rack mounts.













  • We have a choice between T-Mobile 5G, 3M ADSL, coax docsis and Starlink.

    Of those, the most reliable is the DSL, then Starlink, and it’s a tossup whether the T-Mobile or the Mediacom DOCSIS is the least reliable

    I worked for Mediacom for 5 years. It wasn’t reliable then either, but at least then, I didn’t have to play the “first we have to send out a tech that may not actually show up the first time because it’s working at the exact moment he checks before he cancels the call” game.

    When I left them, we switched to DSL, which was … painful, but we managed for a couple of years. Then the pandemic happened, and the kiddo went to remote schooling, and the DSL just couldn’t handle it. So we used the “reduced cost” internet plan for going back to Mediacom.

    Except after months of fighting to actually get the reduced price plan we were supposed to be getting, we were told the T-Mobile now serviced our area, and switched with glee.

    And for almost 3 years it was GREAT. But in the past year or so, we began having horrendous service issues. Speeds were no better, and sometimes even worse than the DSL we had previously.

    Finally, I had enough, and bit the bullet and switched to Starlink.

    Now, our service is great. The bill isn’t, because let’s face it, $120 a month for 200ish Mbps down and 50ish up is nuts, but at least we have fast, reliable service now.