> I don't think the parts about ZFS being "better integrated" on FreeBSD are really true any more. ZoL is not in the mainline Linux kernel, therefore it isn't

> I don't think the parts about ZFS being "better integrated" on FreeBSD are really true any more. ZoL is not in the mainline Linux kernel, therefore it isn't even "integrated". Linux 5.x introduced some backwards incompatible changes which broke ZoL also triggering a response from Linus. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Says-No-To-ZFS-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linus-Sa... For these reasons I'm also going to stick with ext4 on Linux. In the meantime we run appliances and servers which run ZFS on FreeBSD without any issues. SmartOS is another choice to run ZFS but I don't have any experience using it. Maybe I'll try it as an alternative to Proxmox.