On 2014-07-30 13:23, Paul Mather wrote:
I swear by ZFS on my regular FreeBSD systems (though I was having trouble with it on FreeBSD/i386 latterly). I don't think there's any "bashing" of ZFS per se, just a wondering why you'd use it on a firewall appliance that's basically a nanobsd setup at heart...
Maybe it's just me, but I want my firewall to "just work" after power failures, on failing drives, etc is a big plus. Having a self-repairing, snapshotting file system sounds like a huge benefit, but I don't know what the drawbacks are in this context, so I can't make an actual recommendation.
Imagine having snapshots before updates or major changes so that things can be reverted to a working state, rather than relying on the piecemeal XML backups which, at best, brings you a "moderately similar to the previous state" configuration.
Being immune to corruption due to power-failures would be nice too; when I was running squid on pfSense, an unexpected power failure virtually always resulted in file system corruption being repaired, still resulting in a broken squid cache -- I have the impression that zfs would give me a lot more resiliency here (but possibly not, perhaps squid simply can't ever recover gracefully)
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