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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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185 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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znpy ◴[31 Mar 25 16:57 UTC] No.43537173[source]▶
> ZFS is more efficient on FreeBSD (Insert Source)

FreeBSD and Linux share the same ZFS codebase, openzfs.

FreeBSD had its own zfs implementation but they had to drop it becayse they couldn't keep up with openzfs.

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badgersnake ◴[31 Mar 25 17:15 UTC] No.43537347[source]▶
But Linux makes it a faff because the license is incompatible so you have to run it as a 3rd party module and the kernel devs regularly break it. With FreeBSD it’s already there and you know it will work.
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mekster ◴[31 Mar 25 17:31 UTC] No.43537530[source]▶
My zfs never broke under Ubuntu and installation is easy by installing 1 package.
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1. badgersnake ◴[31 Mar 25 17:34 UTC] No.43537554[source]▶
Lucky you