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I wish people would stop with the FUD here. Matthew Ahrens has publicly stated that FreeBSD and Solaris derivatives are equal as far as ZFS goes and OSX and Lin
by feld 11y ago
I wish people would stop with the FUD here. Matthew Ahrens has publicly stated that FreeBSD and Solaris derivatives are equal as far as ZFS goes and OSX and Linux are trailing behind.
- cm3 11y agoIf that's true then bsdnow.tv should be informed. In a couple discussions and interviews (Bryan?) they talk about feature disparity and that a newer OpenZFS version needs to be imported into FreeBSD trunk. It's still true that if you want to analyze serious issues, IllumOS DTrace probes will be more complete. With that being said, I'm glad to hear FreeBSD is not behind IllumOS ZFS. FreeBSD has wider hardware support than IllumOS and thus is preferred by most users.
- feld 11y agoWe're talking about bleeding edge features that were just created, and yes they're often modeled upstream in Illumos. However, there are other features that have been created by companies using FreeBSD first. But they tend to get pushed up to OpenZFS first and then trickle back down to vanilla FreeBSD. When it comes to stability and performance FreeBSD == Illumos. I wouldn't worry so much about features anymore, because as soon as they're available they get pulled in. Last I looked the awesome ZFS features that are coming still weren't fully accepted upstream yet.