John Ramsden

I have been working on a system to identify abnormal behavior on Linux systems through the monitoring of system calls using ML.

Summary Link to heading I needed a method to monitor various system calls, and their associated arguments with a specific format.

Backstory Link to heading ArchZFS, the default go-to for most users looking to use ZFS on Arch, recently went through a significant change, resulting in a disruption where no updates were provided for several months.

I’m happy to announce a new ZFS boot environment manager written completely from scratch in C - zectl.

I just finished the first alpha release of zedenv, ZFS Boot Environment Manager for FreeBSD and Linux.

I enjoy gaming and occasionally there’s an application I want to run that is unavailable on Linux.

I’ve been using the new python rewrite of the jail manager iocage for FreeBSD, and since it’s still in rapid development there have been a lot of new changes and bug fixes.

I recently made the switch to NixOS after using Arch for several years.

I configured Nextcloud inside a FreeBSD jail in order to allow me access to files i might need while at University.

I recently found myself needing a machine to compile binaries on for a CentOS server.

Recently I was looking to install an application on Linux with a large number of dependencies: TeXstudio and it’s TeXLive libraries.

In previous posts I went though setting up a custom Arch Linux install image with ZFS pre-installed, and then installing ZFS on Arch linux.

I recently acquired a Surface Pro 4 and it was instantly obvious what a great machine it is.

While trying to setup OpenVPN, I noticed there was no up-to-date information with correct instructions.

There are various benefits to using a ZFS backed block storage device, or ZVOL, as opposed to large file on disk.

In the last section of this series I discussed using ZFS snapshots, ZFS send and using other interesting features ZFS has to offer.

After using ZFS on FreeNAS and then using btrfs on Linux , I was curious to see how ZFS on Linux stacked up against btrfs.

Recently while setting up a new install of Linux and making my partitions I was wondering why I needed a separate boot partition for every Linux install on my system.

Having been introduced to ZFS on my server, I started to feel as though I was somehow using an inferior filesystem on Linux while using ext4.

My recent FreeNAS Server Build article was featured in BSD Magazine for their January issue all about open source storage.

In the past month or so I have been putting together my own desktop environment starting with Archlinux and openbox and piecing all the different parts together to make a proper desktop environment.

I’ve spent the last couple months configuring and setting up a new home server, with the intent of using it as a storage and media server.