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by ewwhite 3227 days ago
In every ZFS on Linux discussion, there's a question like this. The short answer is that nobody really wants to be forced to run FreeBSD just for ZFS...

Also consider hardware support, mindshare and the flexibility/need to use more of the OS than just the filesystem.

I began with ZFS on Solaris, then Nexenta... then jumped to ZFS on Linux in 2012. FreeBSD was a non-starter because my hardware platform (HPE ProLiant) was poorly supported under FreeBSD. That killed it as an option.