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@rsync I’ve read you’re a major FreeBSD shop. What’s your currently feeling about FreeBSD? How’s the current state of their OS support methodology? How’s stabil
by tiffanyh 7y ago
@rsync I’ve read you’re a major FreeBSD shop. What’s your currently feeling about FreeBSD? How’s the current state of their OS support methodology? How’s stability of the OS these days? Your thoughts on ZFS now separated from FreeBSD. Etc.
You’re one of the few individuals who have the breadth and depth of experience with FreeBSD for commercial use, I’m hoping to hear you’re thoughts.
- 693471 7y agoMost of my career has been working for shops running FreeBSD. FreeBSD is doing just fine. ZFS change is not interesting. Previously upstream was Illinois, now it's Linux. Support for releases changed but for the better. Stability is still great, but it will be a while before I see servers with 10 years uptime on modern kernels again. If I'm lucky it won't happen because they're getting patched...