[xenophonf]

I've had zero problems with kernel updates on Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS on a natively encrypted root. I followed the instructions in the wiki, lightly modified for my hardware and workload:

https://gist.github.com/xenophonf/76fd44ae24772e457cb63d00c0...

`apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y` works as expected. I plan to switch to a similar config on my Lenovo laptop when I upgrade it to the next Ubuntu LTS release.

[accelbred]

Ubuntu's kernel isn't exactly keeping up to date though. I assume the person you were replying to may be following mainline.

As someone using new kernel version as they are released, I'm not willing to use a filesystem that may break with a kernel update. It also seems openzfs only supports up to kernel 5.6, according the the github release. I'm on 5.9, so its not even an option.

[OJFord]

Yeah, too many scary notes and warnings for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

I would need a package that depends on zfs and provides linux-kernel at an appropriate version. Can't have something so critical break because of an upgrade, and I don't want to pin it and forget to upgrade it (also fairly anti-arch).

[kitotik]

I’ve ran the latest kernel with latest openzfs git since around kernel 4.x, currently on 5.9.11. I build inkernel as opposed to a module.

There have been a couple cases where I had to wait a week or two for compatibility fixed to get merged into zfs git, but otherwise staying up to date has not been a problem.