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by kbumsik 2023 days ago
I personally use ZFS on Arch Linux. The DKMS package works almost out of the box and I haven't had any troubles. It takes a long time (but not too much) to compile though.

Or you can use the latest Ubuntu that is shipped with ZFS.

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Be aware of possible incompatibilities with the regular Arch kernel. I switched my NAS to linux-lts when a kernel point-release proved incompatible with openzfs.
Right, I forgot to mention I always use the LTS kernel, since I had getrandom() booting problem last year. https://lwn.net/Articles/800509/
Reporting in from Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS on root. It works great. No issues so far, other than docker requires "zfs" as the storage-driver and doesn't support overlay2. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/171...
Interesting. I thought overlay2 can be agnostic to the base filesystems.