Comment by ghaff

And he was doing fine up to that point. For IMO good reasons, ZFS will likely never be merged into Linux. And filesystem kernel modules from third parties have a pretty long history of breakage issues going back to some older Unixes.

That's going to be plenty of reason not to use ZFS for most people. The licensing by itself is also certainly a showstopper for many.

But I'm not sure his other comments are really fair and, had Oracle relicensed ZFS n years back, ZFS would almost certainly be shipping with Linux, whether or not as the typical default I can't say. It certainly wasn't just a buzzword and there were a number of interesting aspects to its approach.