Hi,
I would like to share my experience with Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. I decided
to start using this because I needed to use ZFS for my data and also
have as much similar environment I use on my other servers. I chose
wheezy (zfs v. 28) and were installing from the current mini.iso cd
image. I have found several slight issues:
* The installer kept installing the grub onto ada0 disk, regardless what
disk was selected as root device for installation. Even during the
expert installation. So I had to put temporary the root disk onto the
first position to be named ada0 to get it installed. Afterward, I needed
to tweak the grub.cfg and vfstab to go for ufsid instead of the device
name during the booting. This allows me to use hot-swap disks without
any problems with boot devices.
* I was unable to enable TRIM on the SSD I use for root fs. FreeBSD
allows me to do it via tunefs -t, however it is not an option in
GNU/kfreebsd.
* I did not manage to make any automounter working. Freebsd amd is AFAIK
not available in Debian and the autofs is not available for kfreebsd.
* iostat (dstat, etc.) does not show any disk activity. Since the main
purpose of this machine is a file server, this would be really nice to have.
* Currently fighting with NFS server (nfsd). For some reason the nfs
daemon gets started during the boot before the "right" nfs daemon start
script is called (/etc/init.d/nfsd). Because of this, the rc "nfsd
start" refuses to start because the nfsd is already running.
Unfortunately, the running daemon is not called via this rc script,
therefore without options set in /etc/default/nfsd. So after every
reboot I need to restart all nfs related services to get nfs server
correctly running. This is something I need to investigate more.
Overall, I am very happy - I made all the main components working as
they are on my other Debian servers. So mainly I want to thank to the
maintainers and give this feedback.
Thanks & Regards
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Vaclav Vobornik
http://syslog.eu
