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Does anyone here use Open ZFS on desktop?
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I am using ZFS on root on Arch using 2x 2TB SSDs striped . I mainly did it because my server runs on ZFS as well and thought snapshotting and backup would be easy, but instead went with Borg backup anyway.
Installation wasn't very difficult, but the ZFS kernel modules can't keep up with kernel updates (even with LTS kernel) on Arch, so I constantly need to do partial upgrades and it's been annoying. As much as I love ZFS I'm not sure I'd do it again on Arch. If your distro is not using bleeding edge kernels then I don't foresee any issues really.
LTS is supported!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel
It is, but with kernel-specific packages you have the kernel linux(-lts) and the kernel module zfs-linux(-lts) and they aren't in sync. Even with the LTS kernel I run into the issue that I can't update the kernel since there's a dependency issue between ZFS and Linux.
I have both LTS and zen and I'm currently on 6.6.36 and 6.9.7 respectively.
Is there an easy way to install distros on a ZFS root that are not supported by debootstrap?