* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/sy...
* http://askubuntu.com/a/626858/43344
* http://askubuntu.com/a/707750/43344
Of course, it is not a lot of work to maintain NetBSD/FreeBSD rc scripts, in the majority of cases. They don't look like System 5 rc scripts at all.
* http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/etc/rc.d/...
But you're making an unfounded assumption that because UbuntuBSD uses the FreeBSD kernel, it will use the NetBSD/FreeBSD rc system. This is not the case for Debian/kFreeBSD and I would be very surprised were it the case for this, which is apparently an "Ubuntu/kFreeBSD" (as it were). Debian/kFreeBSD uses the Linux System 5 rc system, which is very much not "BSD init scripts". This will very probably use that, too. So the fact that NetBSD/FreeBSD rc scripts are a lot better organized than the Linux System 5 rc scripts that one finds on Debian is scant comfort.
What might give more comfort is that there's no reason that nosh couldn't run on UbuntuBSD. It can take systemd service/socket units and convert them to native service bundles, which can be used on FreeBSD under nosh service management.
* http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
It would be interesting to try.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/Softwa...
It's not really "complete" to not put the boot volume onto ZFS, too. Having a separate /boot volume formatted as UFS was state of the art for FreeBSD some while ago. But things have changed since.
PC-BSD nowadays puts all volumes onto ZFS, the root dataset (which includes /boot) included. The bootstrap loader has been augmented to support loading the kernel from a ZFS volume. The PC-BSD installer only creates ZFS volumes, moreover.
* http://web.pcbsd.org/doc-archive/10.2/html/install.html#zfs-...
* https://blog.pcbsd.org/2013/06/pc-bsd-status-update/
Having /boot in the same single dataset as / makes "boot environments" easier, as switching amongst boot environments is just a matter of changing the root dataset.
Ironically, there's less of a hurdle for "UbuntuBSD" copying this than one might think. PC-BSD 10.2 uses GRUB's loader mechanisms for Debian/kFreeBSD.
* https://www.ixsystems.com/blog/a-closer-look-at-the-changes-...
