I agree that the person who posted this seemed to be a little misinformed about the BSD world at how it works with File Systems, but why would anyone say XFS is garbage? I can't even imagine saying something SGI did was bad... Yes, I'm partial.. And Biased. I'm OK with that.
Anyway, for BSD stuff, UFS and all of them in use on FreeBSD right now, ALREADY have the features that the Linux file systems have been trying to do. I have NO idea why ANY person would want to have Ext3 as their BSD File System.... Even if Ext3 was working great on FreeBSD I'd be sure to not pick it. It's NOT a great file system, and I've had to use it for a WHILE now.
I'm one of the people who uses both Linux and BSD very much. I don't pick sides in this either because they both are great to me which is why I have no problems saying that they both have great uses in everything. Right now I have an FTP server running Slackware, and was very happy to see a few of the BSD people saying to me they actually liked Slackware and that it was one of the few Linux distros they actually liked. I generally don't take sides in Linux VS BSD anything because I use both and like both. But I'm weird like that, I also use Emacs and Vi
Both! I do like Vim more but that's for another reason as I do also use Emacs a lot. All of those things where people said something was so much better that they started Holy wars over it, please don't make it happen with File systems.
I'm opinionated enough to choose sides when I do think something works better outright, like how I hate Gentoo... But for File Systems, Linux has a few good ones that work just fine, and FreeBSD has the ones it requires to work great too.
FreeBSD's main File System with softupdates is something Linux just can't compete with in that way, it just doesn't need to use 12 when 2 will do. The reason I don't pick sides is because a few Linux File Systems, are actually nice, but FreeBSD's File Systems, do exactly what they NEED to do, and work great, so there is no point to change them around.
I don't have much experience in ZFS so I'm not going to talk about that but from what I've READ about it, it's amazing.
This is something I thought up years ago, and I think it's a good way to pick your software, File Systems, and Operating Systems:
If you were having Kidney Dialysis, and you had to choose which OS and File System and things that were going to run the machine doing that, would you STILL stand by your OS of choice? Or File System? (Thank you Marshall Kirk for talking about that lol).
I've asked that question to Windows Admins in the past, and they don't like it one bit. All the "Stop bashing Microsoft" sentiment in the WORLD will fly out the "Windows" when that question comes out lol.
And in case you're wondering, I've yet to find even one person who said they'd let Windows NT or 2000 or XP or any other Windows box run their Kidney functions lol.