Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 08:09:32 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <57fa21ef-83d3-7a62-19f6-5475ffa437b2@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20200317044821.GA19098@admin.sibptus.ru> References: <mailman.19358.1581761921.21074.freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> <fde4cbec-efa0-de36-18f9-696e5cdfea3d@defert.com> <20200215141238.GY1879@aurora.gregv.net> <20200316110246.GB95052@admin.sibptus.ru> <A3B0C6AE-31E3-4F3D-A7C5-83CDE203FEDE@cretaforce.gr> <20200317044821.GA19098@admin.sibptus.ru>
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On 3/16/20 11:48 PM, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Christos Chatzaras wrote: >> >>> 1. On Debian, you can run several instances of php-fpm with different >>> PHP versions in them. >>> >>> 2. On Debian, you can install and run several versions of PostgreSQL >>> simultaneously thanks to the pg_createcluster/pg_lsclusters/... >>> infrastructure. >>> >>> All that from standard packages, without manual compiling and tweaking, >>> jails etc, with minimal effort. >>> >>> Not that FreeBSD could not do that, it just does not do that. Especially >>> PHP verions are a great PITA. >> >> It's not much effort to use jails for these cases. I prefer it this way. > > Using jails will be especially counterproductive in case of PostgreSQL > because you will not be able to do smart things like > "pg_update --link --old-datadir XXX --new-datadir YYY". > Running postgresql in jails (several instances in jails on several physical machines), never had problem to do update as above. Valeri -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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