Posts Tagged “freebsd”

• 2016-05-09 Migrating a qmail-ldap mail server (1)

  I'm about to move my qmail-ldap mail service to another host. This article deals with one prerequisite: adding a secondary MX server. Even if you don't use qmail-ldap, you may find this howto helpful for setting up a backup mail toaster. May contain traces of FreeBSD.

  • email
  • howto
  • qmail
  • freebsd

• 2015-11-23 Creating an Adhoc File-Backed ZFS-Volume

  Temporarily in need of a few hundred gigabytes on a FreeBSD system, I stitched together free disk space on different hard disks via ZFS. The plot twist: I used ZFS on top of two existing filesystems. Also, I think I'm in love with ZFS now.

  • backup
  • freebsd
  • howto
  • zfs

• 2013-06-23 Experiment: FreeBSD 9.1 IPv6-only installation

  There is no doubt about FreeBSD's support for IPv6 in a dual stack environment. Curiosity got me and I underwent a self-experiment to see if you can install if without v4 at all.

  • freebsd
  • ipv6-only
  • virtualbox