Absolutely fantastic work by the fifo folks! Just stellar! The future is bright.
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It is refreshing to see such cooperation in an otherwise extremely competitive field. This fantastic attitude inspires us.
We are truly lucky and blessed to have the people in the FreeBSD community as friends.
It is a great time to be a part of both communities and have such advanced techologies at our collective disposal.
The future is bright indeed. There are no two platforms I’d rather be on than SmartOS and FreeBSD. Thank you dear friends for everything you’ve done.
Besides the fact that I have "thin" root zone in SmartOS and the fact that there are still a lot more images available for SmartOS, what things are there which would make you choose one over the other?
EDIT: vmadm allows kvm zones, does freebsd vmadm support bhyve as well? or is that not really possible?
EDIT2: thank you for your work
We are from a SmartOS background so of course we are biased to SmartOS, but there are software packages that work better on BSD, and it does have some interesting potential with wider hardware support.
Freebsd vmadm has jails, and lx jail support right now. We are looking at adding bhyve. It should not be a large task as we took a jail in a jail approach in order to have vnet support but still lock down in inner jail. This made adding lx jails a minimal task, and I expect bhyve to be no different.
Thanks for the compliments! We love FiFo and hope you do too!
The only thing to criticise (to a degree) would be that if the manual isn't followed precisely during the installation you can end up with a busted setup.
For why the choice. It's a solid distributed system, the concepts it uses the same principles as FiFo (masterless setup for high availability). Being written in Erlang means it works flawlessly on SmartOS and FreeBSD plus if you already use erlang gives the advantage to be able to look at the code if needed.
The LeoFS team is very quick to respond, works extremely diligent and takes their work serious (which is a big plus).
Even on the test system which gets brutally shut down (aka plugs pulled) about once or twice a week the installation works flawlessly even after a few month of this torment.
Of cause as always YMMV ;)
And Heinz, congratulations on sticking with illumos / SmartOS and taking a stand for what you believe in; I loved your talk from a few years ago.
