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by lukestateson 1466 days ago
TIL: FreeBSD has wi-fi stack

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lol. No 802.11ac yet.
Oh wow I thought you were joking, but they’re literally 3 generations behind. I was recently complaining about the slow adoption of Wi-Fi 6E in phones, but now I know that true despair looks like.
True but Linux and Mac is also one generation behind, but in a much more important field...filesystems ;)
is that so. freebsd and linux share the same zfs code and linux also has btrfs.

like... where is linux behind?

Soft updates!

It's a dead-end design, you say? Bah, that's quitter talk!

>It's a dead-end design

That's like saing journale'd filesystem are dead-end design, you don't make any sense.

No sure if you don't know it, but Netflix uses UFS2 and FreeBSD as storage on their CDN[1], on the other hand, for the easy and unreliable stuff aka containers Linux is acceptable, just restart it. ;)

[1] https://openconnect.netflix.com/en/appliances/#software

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/publications/library/proceedin...

>>Journaling Versus Soft Updates: Asynchronous Meta-data Protection in File Systems

>>10 Conclusions

>>Soft Updates exhibits some side-effects that improve performance, in some cases significantly. Its ability to delay deletes is evidenced most clearly in the microbenchmark results. For the massive data set of the Netnews benchmark, we see that Soft Updates' ordering constraints prevent it from achieving performance comparable to the asynchronous journaling systems, while for the small Postmark dataset, Soft Updates backgrounding of deletes provides superior performance. The race between increasing memory sizes and increasing data sets will determine which of these effects is most significant.

>btrfs

Haha, have fun with that Clown College of a Filesystem.

ZFS is not part of Linux.

The open-source IllumOS code in FreeBSD had fallen behind Linux ZoL (ZFS-On-Linux). FreeBSD adopted ZoL to keep up with new bugfixes, enhancements, etc.

https://www.freebsdnews.com/2019/01/10/zfs-on-freebsd-zof-is...

So, for open-source, ZoL is the 'mainstream' ZFS.

I run ZFS on my linux servers and my linux NAS. It's served me well.
ZFS is not part of Linux.
Who cares? Nothing is part of Linux. It’s part of Ubuntu.