Comment by rubyn00bie

Or do use ZFS, just know that Oracle sucks and you have to go through hoops because of it...

Also, while ZFS for me has been performant, that seems like a silly reason to decide to use it or not use it. I think ZFS pools and snapshots would be among the deciding factors to use it or not.

FWIW, as some other commenters have said, I'd rather drop Linux than drop ZFS. I'm actually only even running Linux on my home server right now because I decided to try Proxmox out on it months ago and it was soooo obscenely easy to install I haven't bothered to reset it yet (though I need to for various reasons; Proxmox itself being the first, ha).

Really all I care about for my host OS these days is the ability to do virtualization and GPU pass-through... Linux is an option but not the only one. Having a robust storage system where drives can fail, exist as one logical drive, are replicated, has snapshots (including RAM), and I literally don't have to worry about it-- that though, that's really only available with ZFS.