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by tropin 3904 days ago
Can you have your / in linux in zfs?
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lars512 3904 days ago
Sure, if your /boot is something else.
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4ad 3904 days ago
Not required, some versions of Grub can read from ZFS just fine.
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josteink 3904 days ago
Ubuntu 16.04 should come with "official" ZFS from Ubuntu[1].

Hopefully this means everything, including booting from ZFS, should work out of the box.

[1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-ZF...

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amyjess 3904 days ago
Yes, I did that on my desktop, running Arch Linux.

In retrospect, it probably wasn't a very good idea because my / is on an SSD and ZFS on Linux doesn't support TRIM (I'll probably go with XFS if I ever reinstall), but it's totally doable.

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