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I spent some time earlier fiddling with FreeBSD 8.1 RC and was really blown away by how much more advanced ZFS is compared to every other filesystem I've ever u
by adbge 16y ago
I spent some time earlier fiddling with FreeBSD 8.1 RC and was really blown away by how much more advanced ZFS is compared to every other filesystem I've ever used. It's feature rich and it's very intuitive to use and configure. You don't need to be running a massive pool of disks to benefit from the features of ZFS, either. I was just using it on my desktop and transparent, filesystem-level compression and date deduplication are really cool.
And then there's ports, of course, which is awesome, especially if you prefer to build your software from source.
I'd probably move off of Linux as my desktop OS if I could use Mangler on FreeBSD.
- sivers 16y agoI'm a huge FreeBSD fan and run it on all my servers. I've tried many times to use it as my main desktop/laptop system, but it keeps falling short in those few damn nice-but-proprietary things like Skype and Flash. I found a Linux that feels like FreeBSD, though. Arch Linux: http://www.archlinux.org/ http://www.archlinux.org/ + http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions#FreeBSD http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_D... Doesn't have ZFS, but stays minimalist and constantly updated.
- antonios 16y agoData deduplication is not available in the current version of ZFS in FreeBSD. Work is ongoing to port version 24 from upstream which will offer this feature.