If Docker Sandboxes reports 'daemon failed to start properly after 10 retries' while the daemon log says the API server started successfully, check where your XDG directories live.

Sooner or later, every system will have a drive failure.

ZFS was designed with this in mind.

I noticed in my /var/log/kern.log file error messages about one of the drives in my ZFS pool.

Dec  8 07:11:17 nas kernel: [738110.398391] ata8.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x80000004 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
Dec  8 07:11:17 nas …

After I moved from TrueNAS to Ubuntu on my NAS box, I had some issuing deleting some no-longer-needed directories.

One of the TrueNAS features I used was a jail, but those don't exist in Ubuntu (I moved anything that was in a jail to a Docker container).

Trying to delete the jails directory gave me some heartburn, …

I've been using FreeNAS/TrueNAS for over 8 years, and while it works great as a NAS, some of the idiosyncrasies made me decide to migrate to Ubuntu:

1. TrueNAS is based on FreeBSD, and while it's similar to Linux, it's not 100% the same.

2. The feature set of TrueNAS is overkill for my needs.

   • I'm simple home user.
   • I'm …