Am Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 06:11:34PM +0100 schrieb hw: Hi hw,
> On Wed, 2022-11-09 at 14:29 +0100, didier gaumet wrote: > > Le 09/11/2022 à 12:41, hw a écrit : > > [...] > > > In any case, I'm currently tending to think that putting FreeBSD with ZFS > > > on > > > my > > > server might be the best option. But then, apparently I won't be able to > > > configure the controller cards, so that won't really work. And ZFS with > > > Linux > > > isn't so great because it keeps fuse in between. > > > > I am really not so well aware of ZFS state but my impression was that: > > - FUSE implementation of ZoL (ZFS on Linux) is deprecated and that, > > Ubuntu excepted (classic module?), ZFS is now integrated by a DKMS module > > Hm that could be. Debian doesn't seem to have it as a module. > > > - *BSDs integrate directly ZFS because there are no licences conflicts > > - *BSDs nowadays have departed from old ZFS code and use the same source > > code stack as Linux (OpenZFS) > > - Linux distros don't directly integrate ZFS because they generally > > consider there are licences conflicts. The notable exception being > > Ubuntu that considers that after legal review the situation is clear and > > there is no licence conflicts. > > Well, I'm not touching Ubuntu. I want to get away from Fedora because of > their > hostility and that includes Centos since that has become a derivative of it. > FreeBSD has ZFS but can't even configure the disk controllers, so that won't > work. If I understand you right you mean RAID controllers? According to my knowledge ZFS should be used without any RAID controllers. Disks or better partions are fine. > I don't want to go with Gentoo because updating is a nightmare to the > point where you suddenly find yourself unable to update at all because they > broke something. Arch is apparently for machosists, and I don't want > derivatives, especially not Ubuntu, and that leaves only Debian. I don't want > Debian either because when they introduced their brokenarch, they managed to > make it so that NVIDIA drivers didn't work anymore with no fix in sight and > broke other stuff as well, and you can't let your users down like that. But > what's the alternative? > > However, Debian has apparently bad ZFS support (apparently still only Gentoo > actually supports it), so I'd go with btrfs. I have no knowledge about the status of ZFS on Linux distributions, just about FreeBSD. > Now that's gona suck because I'd > have to use mdadm to create a RAID5 (or use the hardware RAID but that isn't > fun > after I've seen the hardware RAID refusing to rebuild a volume after a failed > disk was replaced) and put btrfs on that because btrfs doesn't even support > RAID5. > > Or what else? > Kind regards, Christoph