Comment by ggm | Hacker News Reader

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I am in remarkably similar state to this 'prior' state being FreeBSD 11 hosted, with elements of other distributed service.

I also looked to docker and gave up. I like bhyve, and have considered a low-pain migration to bhyve instances to package things into Linux, and then (re)migrate into Docker. A way to avoid pain, and cost of a duplicate site, to build out and integrate.

I wish something as logistically simple as docker compose was in a BSD compatible model, to build packages to. I'd like the functional isolation of moving parts, and the redirection stuff.

Nice write up. I wonder how many other people are in this 'BSD isn't working for me as well' model?

I use FreeBSD for my NAS/utility server at home, and am considering switching over to Linux now that ZFS seems pretty stable there. NixOS is my happy place these days.

I had not great experiences with ZFS on Linux. Like broken for a month on a standard distros kernel type issues.

For personal it’s probably fine but I wouldn’t use it in prod again.

I'm half-yes half-no on this. I have successfully carried non-root ZFS partitions into Debian. But, I just lost 15TB to an unexpected multipath/iscsid zpool import so now.. I am unsure how I think this story goes.

Debian ZFS is not easy to install as root FS which is .. disappointing. It would be nice if it was integrated into the net install .iso as a legit disk install option.

I've been using ZoL git on Arch Linux (several systems and configurations) since 2017 without any significant issues. It's probably more stable than mainline Btrfs.

What districts and when?

I’ve run it on Ubuntu for at least 5 years without issue.

I think the FreeBSD guys did not fully realize how linuxlator would be fundamental a few years back, so they never really fix it up. Which is a shame, because it kinda ruled out the advantage FreeBSD had with jails when the containerization frenzy started.

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