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I ran mostly centos servers at home for years, but switched to openbsd about 2 years ago and haven’t regretted it. I do wish they had a better file system because FFS is kinda dated, but other than that I’m happy.
Did they backport stuff like soft updates from UFS/FFS in FreeBSD?
I actually like UFS. I met the guy who wrote it (cannot remember his name off the top of my head). With soft updates, writes should be as fast as memory until you sync, at least in theory.
I’m okay with the speed, but I am hoping to one day have something like Hammer2 with compression, deduplication and snapshots. The lack of those features in UFS/FFS isn’t something that would make me move to another OS, tho.
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[–] KofuKid ago
I ran mostly centos servers at home for years, but switched to openbsd about 2 years ago and haven’t regretted it. I do wish they had a better file system because FFS is kinda dated, but other than that I’m happy.
[–] TeranNotTerran [S] ago
Did they backport stuff like soft updates from UFS/FFS in FreeBSD?
I actually like UFS. I met the guy who wrote it (cannot remember his name off the top of my head). With soft updates, writes should be as fast as memory until you sync, at least in theory.
[–] KofuKid ago
I’m okay with the speed, but I am hoping to one day have something like Hammer2 with compression, deduplication and snapshots. The lack of those features in UFS/FFS isn’t something that would make me move to another OS, tho.