Switching customers from Linux to BSD because boring is good

I want to use BSDs, and I tried using OpenBSD, for my servers, but there are far too many missing features I rely on from Linux. One simple example is mount --bind. I want to allow some users to connect to my server via SFTP and put some files their $HOME/files which then goes to a physical disk used for user files. In Linux this is as simple as mount --bind /disk/userfiles/$USER /home/$USER/files. In OpenBSD they recommended using a localhost NFS share. That didn't seem to me like as good of a solution.

Oh, hey, that's mine. Thanks for posting it. I have stopped posting all my articles to HN since most weren't getting any attention.

Now I&#x27;ve got nostalgic ;( I missed my SysAdmin years when I was dealing with FreeBSD &#x2F; NetBSD servers...I first learned about jail [1] around 2004 &#x2F; 2005; since then, I was running a number of isolated apps within a cluster of FreeBSD servers and never once we went down after the implementation, until I left the company that is; afterwards what happened, I have no idea.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FreeBSD_jail" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;FreeBSD_jail</a>

One thing FreeBSD jails have that Linux containers don&#x27;t is a virtual, independent network stack via VNET. At least, I think that&#x27;s a true differentiator. Am I correct, or is there similar Linux tooling for that?

Is there a Proxmox equivalent for FreeBSD? I am interested to take it for a spin as a hypervisor (have always been drawn to BSD but aside from TrueNAS haven&#x27;t used it in any real-world workloads). For a newbie I find that a GUI is great to understand what is possible, explore things, etc. Then transition to an infra-as-code approach later on.

My old blog was on Linux and had 10 y of uptime until Hetzner wanted to retire it. I think high uptime is easy.<p>I was surprised by the fact no one actually exploited it (though maybe they copied everything and didn’t tell me) because network traffic, running binaries were all normal.

Not changing anything will be the most boring option. But yeah, if you are a BSD expert&#x2F;fan, maintaining it is more boring than Linux.