Re: FreeBSD, Illumos ZFS, and OpenZFS

From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:01:40 UTC
On 2/18/2024 10:10 PM, David Christensen wrote:
>
> Now another OpenZFS bug has been found:
>
> https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Encrypt-Corrupt
>
>
> My avoidance of OpenZFS has been reaffirmed.  I do not want my data on 
> OpenZFS.
>
TBH, you are overthinking this. Yes, there are bugs.  There are also 
still bugs in UFS being fixed after all these years.  ZFS on FreeBSD 
both in 12 and 13 have a better than excellent track record.   Nothing 
beats zfs snapshot management ease. UFS is not in the same league here. 
Nor is bit rot protection via zfs scrub. You said you are moving from 
RELENG_12 which does not have any zfs encryption so dont worry about 
edge case zfs encryption bugs in OpenZFS if you dont use that feature in 
the first place.  If you want to stick with FreeBSD, move to RELENG_13. 
If you feel OpenZFS doesnt work for you, switch to maybe Open Indiana, 
but I doubt there is as much development going on there.

     ---Mike