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Re:Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD by tw04 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @08:45AM (#27062368)
Today that's easy to answer: Try setting up ZFS boot with a mirrored boot drive and encryption on FreeBSD, then try it on Redhat, or SLES, or Ubuntu Server.

One of the experiences is very much "native" - the other is possible, but a GIANT pain to accomplish.

At some point I'm sure, Ubuntu at least, will make installing to ZFS on a server OS more straightforward. I've got several systems doing it today, but I can tell you it's not for the faint-hearted and it took a TON of trial and error to get it to do what I wanted consistently. I also cringe every time I apply an update because I know it's not something that is getting any significant testing by Canonical or the community at large.

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Re:Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD by hnlmorg on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:05AM (#27062590)
My production Linux+ZFS server is still running a LVM mirror with ext4 on root because of exactly the fear you mentioned. All the FreeBSD systems have had mirrored ZFS root since v10.x (released 20 January 2014 according to Wikipedia). 7+ years later and I'm still not confident enough to run the same set up in production using Linux.
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Re:Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD by nix23 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @09:25AM (#27062848)
Do i smell Proxmox here? Fantastic system!!
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Re:Deep Diving into the Strengths of FreeBSD by hnlmorg on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:27AM (#27063762)
Not here but I have used Proxmox before (v1 -- back when containerisation in Linux required a custom kernel) and it was pretty nice.
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