IXsystems: No One Is Being 'Marooned' by Debian Focus

Citing one of the sentences from here:

    I mean, do you care what operating system runs your microwave?

That is the neat part - if I have a choice - I do!

There are MANY NAS/storage solutions based on Linux and FreeNAS/TrueNAS CORE was the one I trusted because I knew that ZFS in FreeBSD was always a first class citizen - it was well integrated - along with ZFS Boot Environment support using beadm(8) or bectl(8) tool.

This is the solution I trust to keep my data safe - ZFS on FreeBSD - and it never disappointed me for almost two decades.

On the other hand - I do not have the same level of trust for ZFS on Linux - no to even mention BTRFS or other filesystems.

In the past I always recommended FreeNAS/TrueNAS CORE to my professional colleagues, family and friends as 'THE' solution for safe data storage along with other interesting features such as Bhyve VMs.

Now ... after seeing how iXsystems behaves - killing another of their 'products' based on FreeBSD (In the past they killed PC-BSD/TrueOS/Project Trident/... and maybe something else I do not remember now) I can not recommend any of their solutions as its just not 'stable' - they just lost my trust with these actions.

After TrueNAS CORE is gone and only Linux based TrueNAS SCALE exists - its just another NAS/storage solution based on Linux - nothing more - nothing less - no additional value added.

Hope that helps.