Its all nice and small, etc. but its Apples to Oranges comparison. On FreeBSD You have ZFS with ZFS Boot Environments - which gives GREAT flexibility and prote

Its all nice and small, etc. but its Apples to Oranges comparison. On FreeBSD You have ZFS with ZFS Boot Environments - which gives GREAT flexibility and protection against all kind od updates, changes and even accidental files deletion in the system. Moving to 'oldschool' LVM and EXT4 is just a huge downgrade. Especially without any advanced features such as compression or snapshots or clones or ... all the other wonders from ZFS. As from the busybox ... You can also use it on FreeBSD - its under 'sysutils/busybox' port ... and FreeBSD has 'kinda' itself busybox-like solution - its called FreeBSD Rescue System and its located at /rescue. It contains one executable file 17 MB in size (and ZFS lz4 makes that 11 MB) with hardlinks as commands - including all needed ZFS commands - which BusyBox obviously does not have. FreeBSD % % du -sm /rescue 11 /rescue FreeBSD % du -smA /rescue 17 /rescue FreeBSD % ls /rescue [ dhclient gbde kldstat mt rmdir umount bectl dhclient-script geom kldunload mv route unlink bsdlabel disklabel getfacl ldconfig nc routed unlzma bunzip2 dmesg glabel less newfs rrestore unxz bzcat dump gpart link newfs_msdos rtquery unzstd bzip2 dumpfs groups ln nextboot rtsol vi camcontrol dumpon gunzip ls nos-tun savecore whoami cat echo gzcat lzcat pgrep sed xz ccdconfig ed gzip lzma ping setfacl xzcat chflags ex halt md5 ping6 sh zcat chgrp expr head mdconfig pkill shutdown zdb chio fastboot hostname mdmfs poweroff sleep zfs chmod fasthalt id mkdir ps stty zpool chown fdisk ifconfig mknod pwd swapon zstd chroot fetch init more rcorder sync zstdcat clri fsck ipf mount rdump sysctl zstdmt cp fsck_4.2bsd iscsictl mount_cd9660 realpath tail csh fsck_ffs iscsid mount_msdosfs reboot tar date fsck_msdosfs kenv mount_nfs red tcsh dd fsck_ufs kill mount_nullfs rescue tee devfs fsdb kldconfig mount_udf restore test df fsirand kldload mount_unionfs rm tunefs The MUSL also limits some things - but that is topic for another discussion. ... and do not get me wrong - I like Alpine (same as Void or Gentoo or Devuan) - its just not the same thing. ... and its even possible to setup Alpine with root on ZFS - https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Alpine%20Linux/Root%20on%20ZFS.html https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Alp... - it will just take a quite large amount of work while on FreeBSD you just select 'Auto (ZFS)' installer option and hit enter. Hope that helps.