Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testi
By: phigan to Mrnet on Sun Jan 26 2025 12:46 pm
Re: Re: Back on Track / Beta Testing RH
BTRFS is interesting, but it's more of a linux oriented file system. I personally run most of my home lab on just bare bones FreeBSD. On that system, ZFS is really nice. Instant snapshots. Disk Mirrors and pools. Basically the same exact functionality as BTRFS, just not.
I may ruffle some feathers here, but In my opiniong - one of the slight issues I have with Linux over freebsd is the lack of seperation between user installed programs, and system programs. I have had many install's of linux break themselves after an update. The problem just doesn't exist for me on FreeBSD, The base system is completely seperate from user installed programs. I can deliberately update the base version, when I want to - while keeping the userland programs always running on the latest version of them. While also pulling in patches for security problems for the base. There's a seperation there that's in my opinion extremely nice to have.
When It comes to file servers. That stability - is essential. Especially when everything else relies on it. If the foundation breaks, the whole stack falls. I've spent many sleepless nights trying to un-bork a linux installation after a failed update. I supose BTRFS helps fix this slight issue now, but when I was using Linux on my fileserver it was not an option. On ZFS - I can basiclaly do a rollback to a previous snapshot - if something screws up. On FreeBSD it's been stable enough that i've never had to. I't's been running now for 5 base versions, without a screw up in the update process. I've never gone that long on linux without having to do a full reinstall.
I absolutely love and use linux too, so don't get me wrong.
Recently I have started trying the declarative system called NixOS... tho, I'm personally finding it a bit too "obscure" in it's documentation, as it seems to me they keep changing how to do things, and I'm back to the problem of having to spend 90% of my time reading the manual trying to figure out WTF is going on, instead of actually geting something done.