> nowadays you can get a native Linux Kernel Module for ZFS Is it considered production ready yet? > I disagree about ports being as reliable as package manag

> nowadays you can get a native Linux Kernel Module for ZFS Is it considered production ready yet? > I disagree about ports being as reliable as package management on Ubuntu. For me, it was always super hairy, even with years of Portage/emerge experience on Gentoo. Ports have always been pretty crap for upgrades. There simply isn't enough metadata to do it reliably, so we're stuck with reading /usr/ports/UPDATING and being careful with whatever third party tool we're using to manage it all. This is compounded by there being no "stable" branches - everything in ports happens on trunk, and everyone's expected to follow that. If you're looking for Debian-stable-style backporting of security fixes and sticking with the same version of Apache for half a decade, FreeBSD probably isn't for you. > Apt is just buttery smooth. pkgng is buttery smoother (http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/ http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng/).