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ZFS Platform - Does it matter?

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davewolfs

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ZFS development has been pretty active on Illumos, BSD and Linux the past few years. From a stability standpoint does it even matter what platform is used to run ZFS. For example is Linux now as stable as Illumos or FreeBSD with respect to ZFS?

I appreciate any feedback.

Thanks!
 
I have used the linux version in production for over 2 years at work and home. I have no experience with any of the other OSs.
 
Each OS (BSD, Linux, OSX, Solaris/Illumos) has its own advantages regarding OS related features like supported hardware, OS integration of ZFS or integration of services like SMB, NFS, iSCSI or others. From Open-ZFS view, they are quite compatible regarding the pure filesystem.

Sometimes a new feature is developped on one of the platforms and you may need to wait until it is available on others but compatibility between is a major concern of Open-ZFS. Only Oracle Solaris is different.

From a stabilty view, main aspect against Linux is that there ZFS is a filesystem among many + each distribution behaves different wheras ZFS is the only filesystem on Solaris bases systems and the major filesystem on BSD.

From marketshare Linux is dominant so will be ZFS on Linux.
BSD or Solarish are more focussed on Storage what can mean a better user experience.
 
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