Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux
OK, I'm curious: why are people shoehorning the filesystem to fit the OS rather than carefully picking the OS that makes the most sense for the application it's being used for?<p>We originally ran OpenSolaris _just for ZFS_. Then we switched to FreeBSD when OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana dead-ended. We had a production server running PHP and we were sick of PHP5, so we switched to Linux because HHVM on FreeBSD was a joke. PHP 7 came out and obviated HHVM (from a performance perspective), and so our latest PHP deployments are back on FreeBSD.<p>If your data is valuable to you (and presumably it is and that's why you're looking at ZFS), why are you not on FreeBSD in the first place?<p>Same story with ASP.NET - tried deploying on Mono way back before .NET Core was even an idea and realized the futility of it and switched a server farm to Windows _because it just wasn't worth it._ PHP on Windows? Same story - not production ready, move to Linux.<p>(This isn't to disparage ZfsOnLinux, which I think is a great effort and laudable if only for home user purposes. Instead, this is a question for sysadmins on HN who are using ZoL.. .why?)