Comment by kova12
6 years ago
"last year" means it's in very few distributions at this time. Encryption is another feature that is technically supported, but just been added. When I built my NAS last year, I had to use dm-crypt because zfs didn't have it. Some features indeed lag pretty badly in zfs
Is the first party that is Oracle making any efforts to develop zfs further at this point? Is ZoL the primary development team at this time?
OpenZFS/ZFS on Linux diverged after version 28. They now use version 5000, and use feature flags instead of version numbers to allow different implementations to add their own improvements. Oracle has added some features since then as well, notably: encryption, large blocks, resilvering performance improvements, and device removal. All of these features have also been implemented in ZFS On Linux.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Detailed_release_history
http://www.open-zfs.org/wiki/Feature_Flags