Not been my experience at all. I have seen folks get in over their heads though. Like -- "OMG I've somehow broken boot for ZFS on root and I don't know how to

Not been my experience at all. I have seen folks get in over their heads though. Like -- "OMG I've somehow broken boot for ZFS on root and I don't know how to fix!!" or "I'm using a custom kernel and OMG things don't work!!" Canonical has even been complicit. When you download an HWE kernel, you don't also download a newer/matching versions of the tools. This should pretty clearly be considered a bug[0], and fixed but Canonical perhaps doesn't have the bandwidth? I just can't lay any of these problems at the feet of ZFS though. Right now I trust ZFS a hell of a lot more than I trust Linux to Do The Right Thing. When ZFS seems broken (though I have little experience with native encryption so this may not apply to it), I am far more likely to think the issue is Linux, my distribution, or me, than any problem with ZFS. I'm a pretty serious ZFS lover though.[1] [0]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1939210 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/193... [1]: https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm https://github.com/kimono-koans/httm