On Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:16:09 +0100 Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> wrote: > Adam Wilson wrote: > > I don't even think I'll need ZFS. > > Though once you've tried it, the snapshots feature especially, you > might never want to use anything else! > > > What filesystems does GNU/kFreeBSD > > support? In the installation videos/screenshots I have seen there > > were options for UFS, FAT, and nothing else. The filesystem front > > was a bit limited. Is UFS decent? Is it the BSD equivalent of ext2? > > UFS resembles ext2, although there is a faster, journalled mode more > like ext3/4. If you create separate partitions for /usr, /home, etc. > then journalling is enabled for all except / (where it doesn't work > yet fully). > > kfreebsd has a loadable kernel module for ext2/3; I'm not much > familiar with it. It might possibly work as a root filesystem but I > doubt anyone has even tried that before. Similarly there is a > reiserfs module I've never tried. > > I don't think FAT would be much use as a root filesystem ;) But it is > available and useful for removable storage like USB/SD mass storage. > NTFS is also available via fuse, a little harder to configure but it > does work. > > Also there are network filesystems: SMB/CIFS and NFS. > > > Does the installer partitioner use BSD terminology (slices, > > partitions, etc.) which I have always found a bit confusing, or > > DOS/GNU/Linux terminology (just drives and partitions). > > The installer allows to choose MSDOS, GPT, BSD or possibly other > disklabels. IIRC it uses MSDOS partitioning by default, unless the > disk is very large then it may choose GPT by default. > > With MSDOS disklabels the device naming is like this (with Linux > equivalent shown in brackets) : > > Primary: /dev/da0p1 (/dev/sda1) > Extended: /dev/da0p2 (/dev/sda2) > Logical: /dev/da0p5 (/dev/sda5) > > > I have a relatively new (circa 2010+) Nvidia GT 540 M, which works > > well with nouveau. I suppose the Sandy Bridge integrated graphics > > will have to do then if I go ahead with this. > > You may be the first to try those chipsets, so I don't know what to > expect, please let us know if you do. glxinfo and Xorg.0.log may have > useful info. > > > What's laptop support like? My only computer is an ASUS N43SL, > > Again, probably nobody has tried on that exact hardware. Works great > on my Thinkpad at least. The hardware you listed looks very friendly > to the free open-source drivers in kfreebsd (just as on Linux). > > Wireless networking should work, but probably needs some manual setup > with ifconfig and/or wpa_supplicant. I do this anyway (don't trust NetworkManager, grrr...). wpa_supplicant is my friend, and never fails me.
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