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by JosephEJones 2875 days ago
Does it really gain steam? Last time I checked the CDDL license incompatibility with GPL made it impossible to ship ZFS with Linux, and as such, distros have separate packages not maintained by the core team (I'm thinking of Arch right now).

For the record I would be very glad if I could seamlessy use ZFS, but from my perspective it looks like a lot of work that can break in unexpected places.
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microtonal 2874 days ago
NixOS has ZFS. I don't have long-term experience (switched to NixOS only two months ago or so), but the installation is pretty simple: (1) boot he installer CD, (2) add a line to your configuration to enable ZFS support, (3) switch to the new configuration. And then you are ready to install on ZFS root. Encrypted root also works.

I used these instructions:

https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS

Ironically, I felt less of a need to use ZFS on NixOS. I don't have a large pool and snapshotting the system is not really necessary, since in NixOS you can always roll back to a non-GCed previous version on your system. But I use filesystem compression and might use snapshots on /home.

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JosephEJones 2873 days ago
ZFS is also fully supported in Ubuntu 16: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS
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user5994461 2874 days ago
ZFS is owned by Oracle now. It's more or less suicidal to embed it into any Linux distribution.
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mschout 2873 days ago
LOL. I assume you're trolling. The official ZFS implementation has been Illumos for years now.
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user5994461 2873 days ago
There is no trolling whatsoever. ZFS was originally made by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle almost 10 years. ZFS is owned by Oracle and is a legal minefield.
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JosephEJones 2873 days ago
One can still dream: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Z...
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smittywerben 2874 days ago
This made me laugh. Maybe I'm missing something; I don't understand the downvotes.
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