daggermoonMar 9

Assuming I know nothing about ZFS, would it be a bad idea to install CachyOS on ZFS?

All of my important data is on btrfs drives. I intend to install my system on ZFS. Why, you may ask? Because I can. That’s the fun of Linux after all. I intend to mount btrfs drives as well. I hear that ZFS can break fairly easily? Is this a bad idea?

Show threadSwingingTheLampMar 10
It should be fine, but, why? ZFS isn’t a filesystem like btrfs, it’s a fully-integrated stack of filesystem, volume manager, and software RAID system. Using it on your OS drive is kind of like using a sword as a letter opener. Sure, it works, but that’s not what’s fun about it.
Show threaddaggermoonMar 10
I’ve used btrfs for years. I kind of wanted to try using something different. I also want to learn more about ZFS.
Show threadSwingingTheLamp
Haha, so it turns out I was uninformed. Btrfs has all of that, too. TIL! Might as well use ZFS for the OS drive then in order to learn its commands.
Mar 10 at 12:25amWeb
Show threaddaggermoonMar 10
I’ll be using it too. I’ll let you know how it goes.