TL;DR As the nextcloud docs say... if you want to write to an external volume that location has to be writeable by the user/group www-data on the host system... so if that makes sense to you then this TIL probably isn't a ton of value.. if not howev ... read more →

As I was cleaning up my NAS recently I noticed that I ran out of storage even though my disk usage looked pretty low... turns out I was keeping a mega-ton of ZFS snapshots and due to my own ignorance at the time didn't realize the storage cost of th ... read more →

I started my homelab journey being super naive about ZFS and how to manage the filesystem... that bit me in the butt when transfering a ton of files out of folders and into datasets because ZFS is copy on write so I was essentially duplicating my st ... read more →