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Why FreeBSD?

• b34r 9y ago
  stability.
  • pbarnes_1 9y ago
    Compared to? I agree to some extent that ZFS on FreeBSD might have been more stable than ZoL, but in general? Meh.
• olavgg 9y ago
  The reason is that the Linux and FreeBSD kernels are vastly different. The FreeBSD kernel is more similar to Solaris than Linux and this is what ZFS was developed for. So in the end you have way more kernel "workarounds" for ZFS on Linux than the FreeBSD implementation. Especially the virtual memory implementation on Linux behaves very differently and has caused many issues over time, but I think it is very good now.
• kev009 9y ago
  Goldilocks zone for this kind of stuff.. it's a bit simpler, most of what you need is in the base system, and a lot of people are doing the same type of builds. And for self-support, the freebsd-scsi and freebsd-net mailing lists will get you in touch right away with the people that understand the firmware, protocols, drivers, and systems engineering. You will probably get a response from a kernel and operations aware developers from Dell Isilon, SpectraLogic, or Netflix within the day that commit the code you are using. You probably wont transcend customer support at other organizations in that timeframe.