Hey, thanks for chiming in.

Can you elaborate a bit further?

I absolutely do not mean to be inquisitive, but what does the special relationship means/brings in term of stability?

Well, most "upstreams" the process looks like "they do a release, then we start testing the code, and after a few months we're comfortable enough for it to be in a FreeBSD release". But with ZFS, "they" and "we" largely overlap so all the ZFS code is being tested on FreeBSD from the start and we're not waiting for them to do a release first.

In terms of stability: OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4 has had far more testing on FreeBSD than most of the "release" versions of contrib code shipped in 15.0.

> In terms of stability: OpenZFS 2.4.0-rc4 has had far more testing on FreeBSD than most of the "release" versions of contrib code shipped in 15.0.

I see, thanks.

I guess I'll have to trust your judgement on this :)