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FreeBSDDeep Dive August 27, 2026 6 min read

FreeBSD GEOM Gate: Exporting Block Devices Without Pretending They Are Files

How GEOM Gate turns a remote or userland-backed resource into a FreeBSD provider, and how to handle transport trust, failure, caching, and recovery.

#freebsd#geom#storage

FreeBSDFix August 9, 2026 3 min read

A layer-by-layer GEOM investigation for mounted filesystems, swap, labels, encryption, mirrors, open consumers, stale metadata, and safe teardown.

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FreeBSDDeep Dive July 9, 2026 8 min read

How FreeBSD GEOM builds storage graphs from providers, consumers, and classes for partitioning, labels, RAID, encryption, and diagnosis.

#geom#storage#kernel