Why rely on some consensus? Instead, look at what exactly you need and how to get it. ZFS is very nice, not because of some checksums or whatever but because it

Why rely on some consensus? Instead, look at what exactly you need and how to get it. ZFS is very nice, not because of some checksums or whatever but because it offers holistic storage management including incremental backups and snapshots and compression. However, you could also use MDRaid and LVM2 Thin Volumes with any file system you like to get almost the same, without additional kernel modules.