Comment by TacticalCoder
7 hours ago
This is getting lots of upvotes and rightfully so. I think people would love more posts about FreeBSD: especially about ZFS and bhyve (the FreeBSD hypervisor).
It's a bit sad that this Lenovo ThinkCentre ain't using ECC. I use and know ZFS is good but I'd prefer to run it on a machine supporting ECC.
I never tried FreeBSD but I'm reading more and more about it and it looks like although FreeBSD has always had its regular users, there are now quite some people curious about trying it out. For a variety of reasons. The possibility of having ZFS by default and an hypervisor without systemd is a big one for me (I run Proxmox so I'm halfway there but bhyve looks like it'd allow me to be completely systemd free).
I'm running systemd-free VMs and systemd-free containers (long live non-systemd PID ones) so bhyve looks like it could the final piece of the puzzle to be free of Microsoft/Poettering's systemd.
You express a desire for more FreeBSD posts and then immediately wade into all the typical flame-warring that surrounds most BSD/ZFS posts (systemd, ECC RAM), and it's been that way for over a decade at this point.
Is your desktop or laptop using ECC? For data that you are actively modifying the time that it spends on non-ECC RAM on the server is trivial compared to your desktop or laptop.
I'll take ZFS without ECC over hardware RAID with ECC any day.
"I think people would love more posts about FreeBSD" Translate to: "I would love more post..."
other filesystems are just as susceptible to data corruption from memory errors. this is not a weakness unique to ZFS.