Mastodawn

It appears Linux root-on-ZFS is a mess. No standard way to do it. Kernel updates require recompiling ZFS. Boot environments are a cornucopia of constantly evolving hacks.

If you're actually using #ZFS on root, on #Debian, what's your preferred hack to make that happen? #sysadmin

I suspect #openzfsmastery might need to assume root on extFS and data on ZFS, leaving root-on-ZFS for the advanced user or a terminal chapter.

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gemelen

@mwl
NixOS offered ZFS on root out of the box too.

In my case, as an opensuse user on non-servers (specifically its rolling Tumbleweed) - it's a fully manual non-standard install and then very careful upgrades (with locking the kernel version at times), but it's still better than not having ZFS, for the root FS screenshots included.

But yeah, it's a marginal "expert-ish" group within Linux users at all.

#openSuSE #ZFS #Linux