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ZFS looks like it's eating every gigabyte of memory on the system. This is the Adaptive Replacement Cache working as designed — here's how to confirm that and tune it if it's genuinely a problem.
How ZFS's storage pools, datasets, and copy-on-write snapshots fit together on FreeBSD, with the commands you'll actually use day to day.
A complete walkthrough creating a boot environment before a risky change, and rolling back to it instantly from the boot loader if something goes wrong.
FreeBSD 13.0-RELEASE, published April 13, 2021, made ZFS-on-root the bsdinstall default — a significant shift for how new FreeBSD systems get set up.
zpool import shows your pool as UNAVAIL or fails outright. A step-by-step approach to recovering it without panicking or reaching for a backup first.
Set up hourly, daily, and weekly ZFS snapshots on a schedule, with automatic pruning, using FreeBSD's built-in periodic framework — no third-party tools required.