benefits of ZFS boot?

I have a machine on which I plan to install Update 6 when available. I'd been planning on creating some ZFS filesystems for data but putting the system on a UFS partition. For no particular reason other than feeling no need to be on the bleeding edge, and that logging UFS is quite fine for a boot partition.

But reading between the lines of some other posts I'm getting the impression that there may be specific advantages to ZFS boot. I want to start planning this stuff now, so can anyone tell me what, if any, are the advantages of ZFS boot for a standard system install? I.e. I have no plan to do anything in the foreseeable future with containers or virtualization; it's basically an NFS server.

One reason I want to plan now is that, if it will boot off UFS, I might install Update 5 now, start some of the basic setup, and upgrade to U6 when it arrives. But of course if it's a ZFS boot I can't do that.

Thanks,
AS
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