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The next version of FreeNAS (based on FreeBSD 8.0) should have a more usable (and user-friendly) implementation of ZFS - the project has recently been bought out by a company called iXsystems, and hopefully they should have more resources and expertise to throw at it.I live in hope that one day somebody will write a foolproof frontend to ZFS and build a NAS device based on it, it's so obviously powerful and stamps all over WHS but I just can't be bothered admin-ing my home storage from the command line...
See above... not to dismiss the capabilities of WHS's drive extender (and now Greyhole), but they do seem a bit of a primitive kludge when you look at what ZFS can do natively.I still prefer WHS, but it keeps getting closer. I am about to replace a FreeNAS box in work with it for the Greyhole functionality, just waiting for it to come out of beta (Greyhole that is).