Both are Unix Options and both have unique use cases.
Since around a year Open-ZFS in Illumos includes newest ZFS features
like encryption and special vdevs while they are at first beta in
Free-BSD but soon Free-BSD should include them as well.
For me the main advantage of Illumos are the Solaris inherited features.
This is mainly the "this is a whole storage operating system without 3rd
party services, evetything included from Sun made by Sun". Even a very
minimalistic Illumos distribution comes with the kernel based SMB server
that I always prefer over SAMBA due its often better performance and
better Windows ntfs alike features due nfs4 ACL support (ntfs alike)
with Windows sid as extended ZFS features (Windows AD ACL remain intact
if you move a pool), local SMB groups that are Windows compatible (Unix
groups are not), always working ZFS snaps as Windows previous versions
and mainly its simlicity. Turn it on and it just works. Add NFS from the
inventor of NFS and FC/iSCSI support with the enterprise class Comstar
stack or virtual networking.
Sun build the OpenSolaris OS more or less around ZFS so ZFS integration
is simply the best. Illumos inherited this. While OmniOS/Illumos is the
production ready storage server option with stable, long term stable and
a commercial support option, OpenIndiana/Illumos is the successor of the
OpenSolaris idea of an OS with additional GUI desktop or management
options and a lot of services and more or less pure ongoing Illumos.
gea
@napp-it.org
Am 15.07.2020 um 03:20 schrieb Lonnie Cumberland:
Greetings All,
Hope that everyone one is well today.
Although I am assuming that this may not be the best place to ask this
question, I am wondering if there is an advantage of Openindiana (Illumos
based) or perhaps OmniOS over FreeBSD, or perhaps the other way around.
I am going to move from Linux to either OpenIndian or FreeBSD and seem to
be caught in the middle as both seem to have almost the same features with
exception that FreeBSD may have more support streams over OpenIndiana
although this could change as time goes on.
Perhaps the only real advantage that I might be able to see is that FreeBSD
has more hardware support, but that may not be the defining factor for me.
I am looking for that little gem in the rough, as it were, and do not
always believe that mainstream is the only stream that can yield a bright
future.
Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
Lonnie
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