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Ironically, as much as I love FreeBSD, I am being forced to migrate to Linux because the USB mass storage support on FreeBSD is broken on Dell rack servers. I
by tristor 5y ago
Ironically, as much as I love FreeBSD, I am being forced to migrate to Linux because the USB mass storage support on FreeBSD is broken on Dell rack servers. I recently migrated to a newer generation Dell server w/ 16TB disks to replace my aging fleet of R710s and cut my power usage considerably, and found I could no longer reliably keep a server online if I boot from USB. There's several threads about this on the FreeBSD forums, including one I started, and the general consensus of the community is "don't do that thing you're doing that works perfectly fine on every other OS, even Windows." not "FreeBSD is broken and this bug should be fixed."
I've fought the good fight for FreeBSD for more than a decade, and my last system running it is getting Debian installed on it in the near-term future.