They still can't seem to get BTRFS working anywhere nearly as well as ZFS on FreeBSD. Plus, you get a lovely init structure with no Systemd garbage. I love it.
The ZFS version is a bit political. Sun originally designed ZFS with versions to enable various features along the version continuum. However, many things happened they didn't foresee. OpenSolaris was pretty much a failure (yes, one can argue *today* about Illumos but that's not in the context when ZFS was created). Now you have four groups essentially charting a different course for ZFS and only two of them really matter: Oracle and FreeBSD. Linux doesn't matter a lick since licensing issues will forever prevent Linux from fully adopting ZFS properly. Illumos doesn't matter because it has nowhere near critical mass or the needed dev talent. ZFS code in FreeBSD gets changes often and their source code repos prove this clearly. In fact, much more clearly than lets-lay-off-everyone-related-to-Solaris-at-Oracle folks at Oracle. have demonstrated in the last few years. Yes, the version in Solaris is newer and yes it has encryption. Yes, GELI isn't as stable as the encryption in ZFS in Solaris. However, keep in mind that ZFS native encryption *is* underway and will probably work in 12.1 or 12.2 at this rate. At worst, it'll be in the next major rev of FreeBSD. However, if you are holding your breath for BTRfs or trying to wave the ZFS on Linux banner, you'd better eat an energy bar or something, because you are going to be there a while.
Linux still playing catch up. (Score:5, Insightful)
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But ZFS on Linux is working quite well too. In fact it is slightly newer, the version which includes experimental encryption support.
FreeBSD 12 might have caught up, though the release notes didn't mention any new features so I suspect the ZFS version has not changed.
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