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I built a TrueNAS storage server with Intel QuickAssist accelerator for ZFS back in 2022. It worked well for me. Since I am upgrading it to TrueNAS 25.04, I had to redo a lot of the past work. So I decided to write down everything. This article is not meant to be a comprehensive guide.

Also, the QAT support in ZFS is mostly a research product. It does not get much maintenance as you can see in git history.

Introduction

The plan was building a TrueNAS storage server, but also using it host various containers and VMs for my services. Essentially, a all-in-one server (or all-in-BOOM if the server fails). Partly because my last NAS had hardware RAID card, and with limited hardware resource in the new server, I was looking at way to offload some ZFS work from the CPU. I did not find any ZFS specific accelerator that I can get cheaply on eBay utill I came across the QZFS paper in USENIX ATC'2019 (https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc19/presentation/hu-xiaokang). It demonstated a way to use the Intel QuickAssis

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
#===========================================================================
# Works only with the official image available in the Mac App Store.
# Make sure you download the official installer before running this script.
#===========================================================================

# Change this at your desire. Sometimes this works out of the box, sometimes not.
# Default size: ~21 GB
DISK_SIZE="20000m"

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# default.custom.yaml
# save it to: 
#   ~/.config/ibus/rime  (linux)
#   ~/Library/Rime       (macos)
#   %APPDATA%\Rime       (windows)

patch:
  schema_list:
    - schema: luna_pinyin          # 朙月拼音
    - schema: luna_pinyin_simp     # 朙月拼音 简化字模式