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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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188 points psxuaw | 2 comments | 3/31/2025, 12:59:00 PM | HN request time: 0.398s | source
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asveikau ◴[3/31/2025, 4:22:00 PM] No.43536779[source]▶

ZFS is probably the biggest reason for me. I have a machine with a zfs pool running samba and nfsd.

Philosophically I tend to prefer *BSDs over Linux. I have a few FreeBSD machines, one OpenBSD, and one Linux.

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0x457 ◴[3/31/2025, 5:15:00 PM] No.43537356[source]▶

> ZFS is probably the biggest reason for me.

Maybe in the past there was an argument for that, but ever since FreeBSD started using OpenZFS implementation...what's the difference?

My ideal OS would be something like NixOS, but on FreeBSD and with better language than Nix.

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bluGill ◴[3/31/2025, 8:39:00 PM] No.43539695[source]▶

ZFS is a first class part of FreeBSD. you can use it on linux, but it will always have some rough edges. How rough it open to question though, for some it works well.

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1. free652 ◴[3/31/2025, 10:09:00 PM] No.43540514[source]▶

Well since FreeBSD is pulling ZFS source from Linux, I am not certain what are the rough edges. And I have ran ZFS for 7+ years on Linux with zero issues.

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2. bluGill ◴[4/1/2025, 2:23:00 PM] No.43547129[source]▶

ZFS is not part of linux. It is a separate project that publishes both to FreeBSD and some shims so you can run it on Linux. FreeBSD pulls and directly integrates it, but for license reasons linux doesn't pull it in directly. Yes the upstream project does have some shims of linux use that they public directly, but FreeBSD is a first class user of that project while the linux shims are a hack that some in the kernel do not want to work.