Episode 651

Spatially aware ZFS

February 19th, 2026

57 mins 6 secs

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About this Episode

GeoIP PF FreeBSD, ZFs in production, linuxulator feels like magic, XFCE is great, the scariest boot code, and more...

NOTES

This episode of BSDNow is brought to you by Tarsnap and the BSDNow Patreon

Headlines

GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

ZFS in Production: Real-World Deployment Patterns and Pitfalls

News Roundup

Xfce is great

Linuxulator on FreeBSD Feels Like Magic

The scariest boot loader code

OpenBSD-current now runs as guest under Apple Hypervisor

Tarsnap

This weeks episode of BSDNow was sponsored by our friends at Tarsnap, the only secure online backup you can trust your data to. Even paranoids need backups.

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