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by fsmv 221 days ago
I recently did an arch with zfs root setup. You have to make a custom install ISO that has the zfs module to do it. After it's installed the main annoyance is the zfs module only works with certain kernel versions and often arch has updated the kernel to a version not supported. There's a repo with pinned kernel versions or you can just use the lts kernel.

FreeBSD is much easier but I needed better Linux compatibility for this machine
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tcmart14 221 days ago
We run ZFS for a system at work on linux. Yea, it isn't as seamless and nice on FreeBSD. Only reason we aren't running FreeBSD is the application that needs to access that storage is .NET, and no .NET support for FreeBSD.
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SirGiggles 221 days ago
There is .NET support for FreeBSD but it is relatively recent; FreshPorts lists it as added in January 2024. See:

- https://www.freshports.org/lang/dotnet/ - https://wiki.freebsd.org/.NET - https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/14537

Currently it looks like it's currently just 9.0.10

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tcmart14 218 days ago
Will check this out! I knew there was a group who had a version working, but it wasn't upstreamed and last I check was still stuck at .NET 5. While I would like to migrate from Debian to FreeBSD, probably won't get management to okay that with current services, but future one, maybe!
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solid_fuel 221 days ago
Makes sense, out of curiosity have you tried the linux jails that Bastille offers? [0]

They're still considered experimental so I wouldn't run it for production but I wonder how well .Net would run in one. The whole container could be a zfs dataset, which would be interesting.

[0] https://docs.bastillebsd.org/en/latest/chapters/gettingstart...

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Gud 220 days ago
I would guess they run well.

I use the Linuxulator for a few different tasks.

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