[hnlmorg]

ZFS is nicer on FreeBSD. Even on the more ZFS-friendly distros it still feels like an after thought. But in FreeBSD it’s as close to being a core part of the OS as it has been since the demise of Solaris and its various OpenSolaris forks.

I say this as someone running ZFS on Linux too. So seen things from both sides of the fence.

It’s hard to explain why it’s a nicer experience though. Maybe someone else can?

[1MachineElf]

One example of the nicer experience, maybe as a by-product of the 1st class ZFS support, is that updating FreeBSD doesn't make me nervous like updating the Linux kernel does. On Linux, you're mostly limited to the kernel versions that have been explicitly tested against ZFS.

[greggyb]

ZFS memory stats are integrated into FreeBSD's top. Boot environments are trivial to configure; the OS upgrade tools integrate with BEs for you. It is considered a standard configuration (and has been so for years), so guides, docs, and software are written with explicit integrated support and expectations that you'll use it.

[Brian_K_White]

Then again something something inotify, which kqueue does not equal.

I'm a bsd lover so don't take that wrong.