<p>(Take with some grains of salt: never used FreeBSD or Solaris shells myself and am not a ts-admin. Also, this is a cell phone and I shouldn't even be awake now!)</p>
<p>Also, what do you lose with FreeBSD?</p>
<p>so far I can think of:<br>
* zfs dedupe<br>
* there's no longer a single "goto" company to get support from (guessing...) so you lose that annual cost but it may be non trivial to find the right hacker to find/fix a problem in an emergency. of course much of that support is likely to come for free (a guess)<br>
* you're still a different platform from the rest of wikimedia (basically the foundation) and so lose economy of scale<br>
* you mentioned SGE would still be available but it may be unmaintained (last I checked its enwp article, it said oracle was close sourcing it) just to keep in mind, I wouldn't stay just for SGE</p>
<p>things you lose with linux vs. FreeBSD:<br>
* zfs is gone and (assuming lvm2 + traditional RAID vs. zfs) generally thin storage provisioning and snapshotting is much more limited and wasteful and fragile/more room for error. also most storage expansions will end up w/ transition periods that have *no* redundancy.<br>
* zones/jails</p>
<p>I haven't kept up with the status in the last ~8 months but debian-kfreebsd may have matured enough to warrant a look. (See #debian-kbsd on oftc)</p>
<p>-Jeremy</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 7, 2011 2:58 AM, "Daniel Kinzler" <<a href="mailto:daniel@brightbyte.de" target="_blank">daniel@brightbyte.de</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div>