To be fair, we (myself included) look at you weird because the ZFS folks haven’t done a great job at extolling its virtues in a way that the average consumer can comprehend. It’s important to acknowledge that the vast majority of consumers simply don’t care about the underlying file system or its capabilities, even if they would benefit immensely from the features of something like ZFS.

It’s a problem of communications as much as it is vendor support. If you get the consumers wanting it, vendors will switch to it. Instead, right now we get companies like Apple reinventing the wheel via their own proprietary FS just to adopt some features of ZFS, rather than _just supporting and contributing to ZFS_.

Which means I get to anxiously eye the Synology with btrfs instead of resting easy with ZFS. It’s better than ext4, but I also know I’m the exception rather than the rule.