I'm nowhere near as familiar with FreeBSD as I am with Debian so there's a bit more comfort to at least debug or know where to look when things go wrong. That being said, if all you're looking for is a box to host SMB/NFS/iSCSI then either will work fine.
Now on to concrete things that I see SCALE doing better: I can easily get a letsencrypt SSL cert set up bhyve is hot garbage. guests will randomly die, lose network connection, can see the rest of the network but not resources on the host system, and if you use UEFI and Linux you're in for a world of pain if you ever upgrade (upgrade what? yes). SCALE uses qemu and so far seems much more stable *knocks on head* ditched jails for docker containers, much improved 'app store' I haven't used it yet, but apparently you can use glusterfs to share storage across SCALE instances To be fair, these are things that you wouldn't normally use a professional-grade file server for. It would serve files and that's it. My use case is my basement where I have a few TB of movie and audio files, a need for a few VMs to round out other services, want to run a few containers for small tasks, make sure my mom's computer 300 miles away backs up nightly, and don't want to have 15 boxes in my basement to do it all. -Mark On 2/23/22 15:11, Jason T. Nelson wrote: > In a previous email, Mark Komarinski (mkomarin...@wayga.org) said: >> For everyone else, TrueNAS SCALE was released yesterday. Debian+ZFS >> makes this a lot more useful than when it was FreeBSD based. > I know this is a LUG list, but out of (perhaps morbid) curiosity, why "a lot > more useful"? > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
