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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by GekkePrutser on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:12PM (#32371178)
Me too, at FreeBSD 6. ZFS was also pretty new and unstable in those days. I upgraded and could no longer read my pools.

But I came back to it in the last few years and it's matured a lot.

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Re:Technical reasons to choose FreeBSD over GNU/Linux (2020) by hnlmorg on Sunday August 07, 2022 @03:06AM (#32374520)
ZFS wasn’t just new when FreeBSD 6 was released, ZFS wasn’t even released itself. :P

FreeBSD 7 was the first release to support ZFS and even in that it was marked as experimental support.

So if you were using ZFS before FreeBSD 8, and especially somehow on 6 and below, then you’re very much using ZFS at your own risk and can’t really complain if things go sideways.

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