Random question: What filesystems shipped in #FreeBSD 15.0 base would support being used as a writable root filesystem?
- UFS
- ZFS
- msdosfs?
- ext2fs?
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Indeed so. Linux had a filesystem type named umsdos that layered a raft of non-native semantics on top of the FAT on-disc data structures with the use of magic '--LINUX.---' files.
I think that we can safely say in the 2020s that, across the world of Windows NT, BSDs, Linux, et al., use of the FAT filesystem format has been relegated to edge cases like some boot volumes (e.g. the EFISP) and some data interchange, and isn't in general use for system volumes.
@lattera UFS and ZFS
Who cares about that other garbage for /?
@nuintari Probably no one cares. It was just a completely random thought/question I had.
@lattera I care!
Somewhere, someone is pondering how we port btrfs to FreeBSD, and I want this person to DIAF.
@nuintari @drwho @lattera I will say it is so weird to see people praising BTRFS in internet comments while not acknowledging that the RAID5/6 stuff is still incomplete a decade later and I see people in my own social circles complaining regularly about corruption and other issues
I'm still waiting to meet someone whose zpool was irrevocably lost because of a ZFS software bug, not hardware issues and poor storage design decisions
I'm still waiting to meet someone whose zpool was irrevocably lost because of a ZFS software bug, not hardware issues and poor storage design decisions