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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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190 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | 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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1. znpy ◴[01 Apr 25 07:17 UTC] No.43543781[source]▶
That's only partially true.

The license is "compatible" enough to be shipped by distributions rather than kernel.

AFAIK, the thing is: no one has seriously decided to test the license compatibility (as in, test it in court) and everybody's essentially scared of Oracle dragging them through endless legal litigation. Oracle owns most/all the IP that came from Sun Microsystems and while ZFS/OpenZFS is CDDL licensed... Who wants to spend millions in legal fees to find out?

Canonical did (still does?) ship OpenZFS with Ubuntu but maybe they're not big enough for Oracle to go after them (who knows? the lawnmower works in misterious ways).