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by techhazard 1110 days ago
Desktop, Laptop, NAS and Server all run on ZFS and push snapshots to an extra backup pool on the Server (colocated in a DC).

Those backups are also pushed to an offsite location (with a hosting provider).

Laptop and NAS run on a single disk rootfs, Desktop and Server run on mirrored nvme drives.

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Am still intimidated by ZFS not being introduced into the Linux Kernel tree.
I now run NixOS, so that’s a non-issue for me.

But even so, it’s not hard, you have to install the ZFS package and make sure it’s included in your initramfs (if you use ZFS for / ).

On arch I used the linux-lts kernel with ZFS and never had any issues in three years.

It’s not a big deal if you have a distribution that helps, but then again I run Gentoo.
good to know. Been running Gentoo since 2004.

Last of the split-usr advocate due to embedded engineering and IoT.

I run Gentoo because I prefer init.rd to what I like to call Systemd/Linux.