> Despite the licensing drama and general distaste most distros and Linus have/had for ZoL, the Linux port had sort of become the de facto "standard" for ZFS de

> Despite the licensing drama and general distaste most distros and Linus have/had for ZoL, the Linux port had sort of become the de facto "standard" for ZFS development, with more work being done on that version of the source tree. This actually happened because of one feature: ZFS encryption. That feature was developed for ZoL first, and had to be ported to other platforms. The developer of the feature for ZoL did not want to write it for Illumos first and port it to Linux later. The consequence of that is that the Linux port got its first significant feature the others didn't have, and there was no real assistance to bring it into the other platforms quickly. That led to a bit of a political mess where the fallout was the "new" OpenZFS codebase where Linux and FreeBSD are maintained in one tree. Source: I observed the whole thing while working at the place that wrote ZFS encryption for ZoL.