So I bought a nice cheap used server in order to turn it into a file server + VM Host, every thing was neat in the prototype VM. But reality comes in, motherboard power control over fans is pretty buggy (while idling at 30C, fans gets to max than slow down slowly and once reach the lowest get back to max annoyance and so on).Seeing that I wasn't able to read fan speed from sysctl, and seeing most forums quite pessimistic, I pretty much panicked (this server is in my garage and need to be moderately noisy, not the 7k rpm x 3 kind of noise)So I put it under debian jessie, got fan control to work, get my linux... zfs pool and probably should be happy as a pig.The fact is I'm not, I still want to get back to freebsd for a few reasons.I though of booting on a live version of freebsd or true os but the freebsd one seems more of a rescue tool box, and the true os one does't exist.I need a system where I will have time to test a few port, and maybe a few kernel option without endangering the existing zpool.I though installing it on an other drive while testing and avoiding any zfs import of my pool, or even removing those 6 disk during those test.Any suggestion or idea concerning the test plateforme, the migration?
Safe FreeBSD test on system running debian with zpools
debian;freebsd;zfs