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    Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained"

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    214 points ksec | 11 comments | 30 Aug 25 13:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.695s | source | bottom
    1. NewJazz ◴[30 Aug 25 18:06 UTC] No.45076772[source]▶
    FreeBSD is giving me a sultry look as I ponder my NAS build.
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    2. kstrauser ◴[30 Aug 25 18:24 UTC] No.45076900[source]▶
    I'm in that boat. I'm looking over at that Synology unit sitting in the corner of my living room, knowing it'll be the last of its kind to live here, and wondering what its replacement will look like. FreeBSD's been good to me and it might be time to reintroduce myself to it.
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    3. _0xdd ◴[30 Aug 25 19:09 UTC] No.45077184[source]▶
    Go for it. I made the switch ~10 years ago and didn't regret it at all. First-class, rock solid ZFS integration. Saved my data on more than one occasion.
    4. bpye ◴[30 Aug 25 19:31 UTC] No.45077332[source]▶
    There are some Linux distros with ZFS as a near first class citizen. NixOS is one, I believe Alpine is another.
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    5. mrighele ◴[30 Aug 25 20:17 UTC] No.45077667[source]▶
    Ubuntu too.
    6. bombcar ◴[31 Aug 25 04:08 UTC] No.45080297[source]▶
    I looked long and hard at FreeBSD and eventually went with Gentoo on ZFS, as I was familiar with Gentoo and ZFS wasn't hard to add.
    7. nichos ◴[31 Aug 25 04:35 UTC] No.45080402[source]▶
    Doesn't TrueNAS (Linux version) come with ZFS?
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    8. magicalhippo ◴[31 Aug 25 05:22 UTC] No.45080578{3}[source]▶
    TrueNAS Scale, which is the Linux variant, does indeed come with ZFS.

    The comapny behind it, iXsystems, pays for ZFS developers as well.

    9. Gud ◴[31 Aug 25 06:43 UTC] No.45080915[source]▶
    FreeBSD is extremely simple to keep up to date, including third party packages.

    Unless you have some very specific reason to use Linux, I would go with FreeBSD.

    10. procaryote ◴[31 Aug 25 08:36 UTC] No.45081518[source]▶
    Fwiw, I'm running a NAS on btrfs (on top of mdadm raid as I don't fully trust the btrfs raid, and the recovery tools seem worse). It seems to be working well so far.

    Being able to do snapshots easily is really nice. I have a script that makes hourly snapshots and keeps the N latest, which protects me against a bunch of pebkac errors

    I do periodic backups to non-btrfs storage though. I need backups anyway so it seemed like an easy way to de-risk

    11. speed_spread ◴[31 Aug 25 11:39 UTC] No.45082413[source]▶
    Proxmox is Debian + ZFS. Works great.