FreeBSD as Server

[Patrik Forsberg]

> I am ISP admin. All my server work under Linux, but I want to try for 
> this function FreeBSD. Once I used server under FreeBSD 5.3. Now I 
> testing FreeBSD 6.0.
> I liked functions such as dummy net, simple configuring, etc. But in 
> FreeBSD I don't have alternative FileSystems exclude UFS and UFS2. On 
> high-loaded FileServer is good idea to use XFS or ReiserFS, 
> but this FS 
> don't supported as well as in Linux. How I can to solve this problem?

UFS2 scales very well on a havy loaded server so I see no reason to use
RaiserFS or any other FS in FreeBSD ?
I've ran, and is about to do so, a major newfeed machine, which use alot
of disk i/o, on UFS2 without any trouble.
With softupdate in UFS2 the fsck in case of a crash is very time
limited.

As for XFS and ReiserFS support you do have the support in ports:

Path:   /usr/ports/sysutils/progsreiserfs
Info:   Utilities and library to manipulate ReiserFS partitions

Path:   /usr/ports/sysutils/xfsprogs
Info:   A set of utilities and library to manipulate an xfs filesystem


I've never used them tho.

Regards,
Patrik