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For us in particular, a big deciding factor was actually monitoring when we decided to consolidate our storage servers on ZFS on Linux (migrating a couple that
by sethhochberg 9y ago
For us in particular, a big deciding factor was actually monitoring when we decided to consolidate our storage servers on ZFS on Linux (migrating a couple that were FreeBSD back to Linux).
ZFS works well enough on either these days, and most of our linux folks are certainly comfortable enough in BSD-land, but our primary server monitoring stack at the time (NewRelic's server/infrastructure agents) doesn't have any BSD support at all and they didn't have interest in adding it, so we went back to the other set of tools we knew (linux) which integrated better with the other tooling we used and didn't have time to replace.
The purists who try to suggest ZFS should be used from BSD whenever possible are probably forgetting "perfect is the enemy of good"
- laumars 9y agoI don't think the grandparent poster was talking from a purist perspective though (I certainly wasn't). I think s/he was more interested why so few people consider FreeBSD. It might be the case that everyone runs into a deal breaker like yourselves but I think sometimes people don't consider FreeBSD simply because it isn't Linux. However I do completely agree with your points as well. I feel your pain with NewRelic as I've also ran into a few brick walls with them. In fact on Linux as well (not tried NewRelic agents on FreeBSD).