Very interesting! Thanks for this…never tried or even read neatly about FreeBSD till now…
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I actually like ZFS - on FreeBSD and Solaris…
I had lacklustre performance on it with Ubuntu - but - admittedly I was using encryption - I read a guide about how to get Ubuntu to install on a ZFS encrypted fileystem… I don’t do that any more… I noticed that ZFS decrypt and encrypt processes were consuming CPU cycles - I NEVER see that with LUKS on EXT4
Not sure the ZFS drivers / software / libraries on Linux are quite ready for primetime…
anyway - if ZFS is a monster, then I guess so is btrfs…
I just found my Dell laptop that I’d been using for Gentoo (I’ve given up on Gentoo) and Windows 10 (hardly ever) I may wipe it and install GhostBSD… or maybe MidnightBSD… Hmmm…
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Not quite as monstrous, but in the same category.
Both ZFS and Btrfs are fine products, … just too sophisticated for the average desktop.
We have one contributor (@ihasama ) who switched to Btrfs in Gentoo and is happy with the outcome.
@daniel.m.tripp knows this, but for others to note… be careful if you do a hard install with ZFS… it will OWN your disk.
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