<p>The weird errors you see when your root partition is full, TikTok uses a lot of bandwidth by preloading videos, and dealing with a ZFS pool that won&#8217;t import.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/">Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/short_video_prefetch_research/">TikTok video pre-loads cause ‘massive data wastage’</a></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/13483#issuecomment-3284437226">Importing corrupted pool causes PANIC</a></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17581">Klara added additional diagnostics to ZFS to help investigate this issue, that shipped as part of 2.3.4</a></p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/17094">Klara also has a work-around to get past the errors, but it is likely to result in data loss if there are overlapping segments, or the leaking of free space when segments are not entirely removed</a> (not to be attempted without a developer present)</p>
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2.5 Admins 268: The Salter Philosophy

2.5 Admins is a podcast featuring two sysadmins called Allan Jude and Jim Salter, and a producer/editor who can just about configure a Samba share called Joe Ressington. Every week we get together, talk about recent tech news, and answer some of your admin-related questions.