[cryptonector]

Yes, that's what rleigh is saying. It's what I'm saying.

ZFS sets a very very high bar indeed. There are things that could be done better (I've talked about some of those on HN). But pound for pound, it's the best storage stack today and has been for over a decade. ZFS is the benchmark against which all others are to be stacked. There will be applications for which you will find a more performant solution, maybe, but altogether, ZFS has been the last word in filesystems for a long time now.

The most interesting competition, IMO, is from HAMMER. We'll see how that progresses.