Comment by johannes1234321
4 days ago
For a while I ran Open Solaris with ZFS as root filesystem.
The key feature for me, which I miss, is the snapshotting integrated into the package manager.
ZFS allows snapshots more or less for free (due to copy on weite) including cron based snapshotting every 15 minutes. So if I did a mistake anywhere there was a way to recover.
And that integrated with the update manager and boot manager means that on an update a snapshot is created and during boot one can switch between states. Never had a broken update, but gave a good feeling.
On my home server I like the raid features and on Solaris it was nicely integrated with NFS etc so that one can easily create volumes and export them and set restrictions (max size etc.) on it.
> is the snapshotting integrated into the package manager.
some linux distros have that by default with btrfs. And usually it's a package install away if you're already on btrfs.