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I really like a lot of things about FreeBSD and would love to try it in the cloud but I feel like I'm missing something? Running FreeBSD on top of ZFS seems to
by oldsj 11y ago
I really like a lot of things about FreeBSD and would love to try it in the cloud but I feel like I'm missing something? Running FreeBSD on top of ZFS seems to be the smart way to go and yet this requires 1GB of ram minimum. If I spin up an instance of Ubuntu using ext4 by default, the OS uses around 50Mb of ram total. I feel like only the big kids who run on dedicated servers or who are paying for a larger instance get to use FreeBSD.
- xenophonf 11y agoThere's nothing wrong with UFS+SUJ. FreeBSD is awesome for a lot more reasons than just ZFS, and it works well in low memory environments (assuming that you're willing to tweak the kernel/installation a little bit---for example, see https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/nanobsd/index.html). That said, the smallest current generation instance from Amazon comes with 1 GB RAM, which is more than enough memory to experiment with everything FreeBSD has to offer.