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Could summarize to Linux is more commercial marketing checkbox oriented now, whereas FreeBSD is the good old days of itch scratching. For example, RAID5 hasn't
by VLM 9y ago
Could summarize to Linux is more commercial marketing checkbox oriented now, whereas FreeBSD is the good old days of itch scratching.
For example, RAID5 hasn't been interesting to me as sysadmin for decade or more now for a variety of reasons. I did use it back in the days of single digit gig hard drives to create something useful sized, but its not the "right" way to do almost everything now except for the weirdest corner cases, that can be worked around in much better ways. Its something marketing can checkbox so commercialized Linux will NEVER remove it. I remember the good old days of having qty six two gig hard drives and software RAID5 on top of them. Those days aren't coming back, but they were good old days.
On the opposite side, the handbook is useful on a regular basis, so people often use it, and maintain the heck out of it, making it even more more useful, repeat.
- ggm 9y ago"doesn't have raid5 in geom but has raidz1 in zfs" got me. Geom is useful as a layer abstraction without raid5 and zfs has raid5 equivalent (and better) so.. why does it matter?