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Why I run FreeBSD for my home servers (2024)

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188 points psxuaw | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.233s | source
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asveikau ◴[31 Mar 25 16:22 UTC] 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 ◴[31 Mar 25 17:15 UTC] 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 ◴[31 Mar 25 20:39 UTC] 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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tomxor ◴[31 Mar 25 22:16 UTC] No.43540561[source]▶
Used ZFS on Debian in production for 8 years, yet to experience rough edges but always interested to learn.
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1. 0x457 ◴[03 Apr 25 20:19 UTC] No.43574855[source]▶
Well, rough edges:

- bootloader (when root is on ZFS)*

- ARC vs kernel page cache and OOM Killer

That's all in my opinion.

*: Relative to FreeBSD, but that's because bootloader in FreeBSD is part of the base system and in linux it could be one of many.