If you take into consideration that there are alternatives like FreeBSD and SmartOS which do not suffer from such serious and basic functionality malfunctions,

If you take into consideration that there are alternatives like FreeBSD and SmartOS which do not suffer from such serious and basic functionality malfunctions, it is illogical to keep putting up with GNU/Linux on the basis of being the only thing one is comfortable with. Comfort is of little consolation or use if the operating system is this unreliable, especially since making sure that data is safely and correctly stored is core, basic functionality.