What will the reaction be from Canonical, iXsystems, NixOS, and Proxmox? I choose my Linux platforms based on their support for OpenZFS. Everything else at the moment is just a disadvantaged compromise.

The outlooks seems bleak because of 1) last week's news of a potential successor, Bcachefs, moving to being externally maintained; 2) one of the Btrfs maintainers stepping down.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Externally-Maintained

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Josef-Bacik-Leaves-Meta

I've been following bachefs development for a while and supporting Kent on patreon so Bcachefs losing its mainline, supported status broke my heart a little. My home storage has always been under ZFS but being out-of-tree and requiring old kernels is increasingly annoying for me. It's basically the only reason I still use Debian, all my other systems are Fedora at this point.

Also, I hit one of the zfs native encryption send/receive bugs after it came out. It was clearly a rushed feature and made me question the future of zfs maintenance.

My plans have now changed to btrfs and I'm taking the opportunity to create a rock-solid and thoroughly tested backup/restore strategy. Wish me luck!