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Nice! If I'd be looking into running FreeBSD it would be because I heard about its supposed security and I/O performance characteristics. Do those qualities hol
by tinco 4y ago
Nice! If I'd be looking into running FreeBSD it would be because I heard about its supposed security and I/O performance characteristics. Do those qualities hold up when run on firecracker this way? What applications would you choose FreeBSD for?
- LunaSea 4y agoIs I/O performance still better on FreeBSD after the last round of Linux improvements like io_uring and eBPF?
- dangerface 4y agoIn my experience FreeBSD performance and security are great but not significantly better than linux. ZFS support on freebsd seems better than linux certainly its been supported a lot longer, bhyve works really well for virtualising freebsd and linux never tried it with windows. The biggest strength is the ports / package manager works better than anything I have tried on linux and it sticks to unix principles closer than linux. The biggest weakness for freebsd is docker and mono support is very poor. There is a desktop distro but in general any gui stuff linux beats freebsd hands down I only use freebsd for server stuff. I use it for production web servers, backup / storage servers, routers, virtualisation servers. I find its rock solid and more consistent than linux.
- exogenousdata 4y agoAgreed that the lack of docket support is frustrating given how pervasive docker has become. However I’ve been using jails[0] in my home lab for 12 years and it’s a delight to use. [0] - https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/ https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/jails/
- soupbowl 4y agoI love jails, bastille as a jail manager/builder is really great. https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille https://github.com/BastilleBSD/bastille