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The State of ZFS On Linux
An anonymous reader writes: Richard Yao, one of the most prolific contributors to the ZFSOnLinux project, has put up a post explaining why he thinks the filesystem is definitely production-ready. He says, "ZFS provides strong guarantees for the integrity of [data] from the moment that fsync() returns on a file, an operation on a synchronous file handle is returned or dirty writeback occurs (by default every 5 seconds). These guarantees are enabled by ZFS' disk format, which places all data into a Merkle tree that stores 256-bit checksums and is changed atomically via a two-stage transaction commit.. ... Sharing a common code base with other Open ZFS platforms has given ZFS on Linux the opportunity to rapidly implement features available on other Open ZFS platforms. At present, Illumos is the reference platform in the Open ZFS community and despite its ZFS driver having hundreds of features, ZoL is only behind on about 18 of them."
FreeBSD has had ZFS for what, over five years now? They are the reason it exists in any actual use (OpenSolaris/Illumos don't count) on any non-Sun/Oracle platform.
And Linux's wannabee ZFS competitor BTRFS (oooh, look at us) sucks so bad it can't get off the ground.
So what does Linux do.... import (steal) ZFS from OpenZFS/FreeBSD and start posting about how great all their work with ZFS is, and how Linux bloggers now say 'oh yeah, ZFS is actually solid, so we can use it'. As if they are the only/first ones to certify ZFS. Thing is, ZFS was always solid. When bashing ZFS Linux was really just babbling about ZFS's more open and free BSD License and their own failure of BTRFS.
Any more Linux is just a craptank of unreliable mashed up bloatware.
If you want an integrated system that just works, try FreeBSD.