Main reason being that on a lot of systems I use don't have a password on the root account, or more often, I don't know it. sudo su lets me use my password. For my personal systems it doesn't matter - but for, say, diving into root-owned logs folders on work systems, keeping sudo su in my fingers is easier.
It was more "I am screwing with ZFS so every command needs sudo and it was a pain" than awesome ;D
Yeah I just upgraded the ram in my server for that reason. Between that and giving lots of RAM for my MariaDB buffer pool, things are really responsive!
I upped my server to 64 GB of RAM over the course of this year in pieces, and I just installed 64GB of SWAP, but considering that it's mostly running web, email, unifi, household NAS requirements, an internet radio stream, and a few other things - it's getting used - but it's not getting *beaten* like a large mariadb would
I have both my Friendica server and Nextcloud on this server. Especially on Friendica I noticed significant improvements my increasing the pool, and zfs storing most recent things in RAM helps speed up the rest.
Can I ask why to use
sudo suinstead ofsu? I'm asking because on Debian/ Devuan sudo is not automatically enabled for the first user account.What are the practical security implications?
It was more "I am screwing with ZFS so every command needs sudo and it was a pain" than awesome ;D