Wednesday, March 4, 2026

NFS on FreeBSD with ZFS

I need NFS 4.x storage for some tests. I would like to leverage FreeBSD 14.3 with ZFS and export two ZFS Datasets via NFS.

In this blog post, I will document how to setup NFS storage on FreeBSD.

Benchmark of ImpossibleCloud S3 Object Storage (Prague - Frankfurt)

ImpossibleCloud S3 storage is pretty interesting offering of European Object Storage. Cloud4com datacenters are located in Czechia, Prague and Impossible closest S3 Storage is in Frankfurt. ImpossibleCloud could be used for offsite backups or remote object repositories.   

In this blog post, I will do a benchmark of ImpossibleCloud S3 storage accessed from Prague's Cloud4com datacenter. I have S3 client in Cloud4com vPDC in Prague and accessing ImpossibleCloud S3 Storage in Frankfurt.

Cloud4com physical datacenter is located at Prague, TTC

  • vRouter with Guaranteed bandwidth (CIR) 100 Mbps and Maximal bandwidth (Shaping) 1000 Mps
  • S3 Client (MinIO Warp) is running on VM (4 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 1 Gb vNIC, 10 GB vSSD @ 500 IOPS) with FreeBSD 14.3

ImpossibleCloud S3 Storage is located at the “eu-central-2” region which corresponds to data centers in Germany (Europe / Frankfurt area).

Let's do some performance tests and report achieved results.