Vibe Coding, MinIO Fork Fallout, and VMware Snapshot Shenanigans | TrueNAS Tech Talk (T3) E030

In this episode of TrueNAS Tech Talk, the hosts discuss upcoming virtualization improvements in TrueNAS, highlighting their responsiveness to community feedback regarding VMs. They delve into a one-line fix in ZFS that dramatically improves throughput for multi-threaded write workloads, while also addressing its limitations for single-threaded writes. The hosts then explore alternatives to MinIO following its decision to remove the web-based administrative UI from its open-source version, mentioning forks like OpenMaxIO and others landing in the TrueNAS apps catalog. They also discuss the impact of AI on software development, noting its increasing role in code generation and the shift in bottlenecks from coding to testing and validation. Finally, they answer audience questions, including one about end-of-life support dates for TrueNAS versions and another concerning VMware snapshots and potential conflicts with Veeam backups, offering advice on how to avoid data store saturation.