How would u et up ZFS for best performance

1. give it always full disk 2. maybe 4GB of swap 3. on single disk environment let zfs make 2 copies per file (this makes your data a bit more resilient against disk sector failures) 4. don't mess with RAM optimization firsthand (e.g. in rc.conf)

1. give it always full disk 2. maybe 4GB of swap 3. on single disk environment let zfs make 2 copies per file (this makes your data a bit more resilient against disk sector failures) 4. don't mess with RAM optimization firsthand (e.g. in rc.conf)

so it would be raidz2 ; for stripe? it's no redundancy, 4GB swap , encryption is enabled

no - raidz2 is NOT stripe but a multi-HDD setup, where you can loose 2 drives without data loss

if you have 1 disk it is automatically stripe

ah ok so actually I can let the settings like proposed

regarding point 3 on aboves list: see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gevpg/index.html

regarding point 3 on aboves list: see https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/819-5461/gevpg/index.html

thx mate

yes

Did I make my point now? It is (too) confusing. Only if you know what to do it is easy, all of a sudden. Handbook and reality diverge here...

Well no simple desktop setup is not that complicated

Just install xorg, the xorg drivers, install a desktop environment, install a login manager and you're good to go Oh and you should set some sysctl settings to get a more smooth desktop experience

It still took me a long, long time to figure out, that the handbook descriptions do not reflect that ease of use.

This disrupted basically all xorg-conf-descriptions on the net

and it was nowhere clearly written

Maybe it was communicated through FreeBSD-newsletter(s) - which I did not subscribe to, so far

hmm what's py3glances? I haven't heard about it yet

hmm what's py3glances? I haven't heard about it yet

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space through a curses or Web based interface. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size.

To be found at https://glances.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a maximum of information in a minimum of space through a curses or Web based interface. It can adapt dynamically the displayed information depending on the terminal size.

I am a noob :D sry mates :D

thx for ur patience 😊

don't worry - everybody is a noob in another area... 😉

don't worry - everybody is a noob in another area... 😉

Except me

Just kidding

😃

I just found this book. Looks cool maybe I'll buy it

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278926/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_QI29EbBYWMVHQ

This is said to be one of the best available.

Nice

It is worth visiting the author's website: https://mwl.io

Absolute FreeBSD, 3rd Edition: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD https://www.amazon.com/dp/1593278926/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_QI29EbBYWMVHQ

I started also with this book

He also can be found at YT in many speeches he gave

It was Mr. Lucas whose talks made it easier for me to leave the windows world

Also look for Absolute OpenBSD

He also can be found at YT in many speeches he gave

Wow he released many impressive books also thrillers and fiction books

Yes. I heard about it, before. Never ran across it, though...

It was Mr. Lucas whose talks made it easier for me to leave the windows world

Well I left it quite easy back in the days as quickly as I saw what linux can do without the hassle of viruses, forced updates and other stuff

This I saw early, too.

What bothered me - until today - is the upgrade philosophy of those many distros out there.

If Linux is 'only' a kernel, and the kernel can be updated/upgraded easily. Why to hell are pretty much all of those linux distros keen on you reinstalling every 2,3 or 5 years?!

That did never make any sense to me. Not the slightest...

What bothered me - until today - is the upgrade philosophy of those many distros out there.

Well there are release based distros, rolling release distros and source based distros On freebsd you get the best of both worlds with default stable packages through pkg and the opportunity to get source packages over the ports tree

That did never make any sense to me. Not the slightest...

+1

BSD are more like rolling-distro in Linux world

BSD are more like rolling-distro in Linux world

On freebsd you also have to update to a new version, don't you?

If you want to compare, compare it with Archlinux or Manjaro

On freebsd you also have to update to a new version, don't you?

Same as manjaro or arch

If you reinstall every couple of months you are always beginning from 'zero' again... that's completely useless

They updated their ISO every month

Same as manjaro or arch

Huh? No

If you reinstall every couple of months you are always beginning from 'zero' again... that's completely useless

yes it is

I did all that. Comparing linux distros

You never reinstall a rolling release distro

Same as Freebsd

Problem with those rolling releases: if you doesn't keep your system up-to-date on a day-by-day-base, things will brake

I did all that. Comparing linux distros

on upgrading like Ubuntu etc; you've to "pray" that your system will not break etc. , even though you've prepared all the stuff and did backups... it's a waste of time of upgrading or reinstalling Linux OSs

You don't have to update everytime

e.g. once you use a pc, which you didn't use for a quarter of a year, or so

You never reinstall a rolling release distro

Unfortunately, I broke all which I tested

Manjaro was VERY promising

If Linux is 'only' a kernel, and the kernel can be updated/upgraded easily. Why to hell are pretty much all of those linux distros keen on you reinstalling every 2,3 or 5 years?!

I'm answering this, let stick with this

and I ran into upgrade difficulties that were not to handle by pacman itself nor by my timely effort I was willing to put into it

Arch is completely rolling release You just do pacman -Syu and have the latest version Freebsd is version based. So you do freebsd-update -r 12.0-RELEASE upgrade For example Then freebsd-update install Then reboot and then freebsd-update install Again to clean up old stuff Then you have to upgrade pkg pkg-static install -f pkg Then upgrade all the packages pkg update pkg upgrade After that one last time freebsd-update install And that was it

yes - that is theory

On a system with 700+ packages I got errors

and '-f' option was no longer a valid option

You don't have to do -Syu, you can always pick and choose what you want to update/upgrade

Samething I do in BSD

I was reading carefully into Arch's documentation. -Syu didn't help any longer. I lost the whole system. No clue, what broke the package manager.

I only imediate upgrade something that I think nessesary, i.e Firefox

(except for not having used manjaro for a couple of months)

I was reading carefully into Arch's documentation. -Syu didn't help any longer. I lost the whole system. No clue, what broke the package manager.

one of the reasons to stick with BSD

EXACTLY! 😊

I was reading carefully into Arch's documentation. -Syu didn't help any longer. I lost the whole system. No clue, what broke the package manager.

Strange

Once, I found a description in the net, where one BSD jock updated from a FreeBSD version 4.x to sth. recent like 10.x or 11.x

I was very impressed by that

Once, I found a description in the net, where one BSD jock updated from a FreeBSD version 4.x to sth. recent like 10.x or 11.x

Wew that's a large step

This is, what I want. Everything else is rubbish.

Once, I found a description in the net, where one BSD jock updated from a FreeBSD version 4.x to sth. recent like 10.x or 11.x

I can understand that you've been very impressed by that

It's like me

no headache