ZFS is great and generally stable and mature, but it seems like the support for encryption, a buggy optional feature, was merged in without enough scrutiny and

ZFS is great and generally stable and mature, but it seems like the support for encryption, a buggy optional feature, was merged in without enough scrutiny and the problems are still unfixed. All the advice you'll get from anybody experienced (which I am not very with ZFS, but have been setting up some NAS projects with it so am researching) is to not even touch encryption with a 10 foot pole. As long as you don't enable it (and I expect a lot of GUI driven NAS products probably don't even let you through the GUI or warn you if they do), you're good.