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by vermaden 782 days ago
I have seen what ZFSBootMenu can do and I really like it.

Its just 'crazy' to me that there are ZERO Linux distributions that install as root on ZFS with ZFSBootMenu and enabled ZFS Boot Environments.

None. Zero. Why?

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They're afraid of the hypothetical legal threat from Oracle, which largely seems to come from a lot of license misinterpretation and urban myth.

Seems like the only ones that have ventured to ship a ZFS binary are Canonical, and their implementation seems to be done by people that didn't understand ZFS and have no interest in understanding it.

It's really a shame. OpenZFS on Linux really has excellent support and integration, arguably as good as or better than FreeBSD and Illumos, and has this excellent bootloader.

Still, ZFS has good out-of-tree support in distros like Void and Alpine, where the users can take it upon themselves to do a good root-on-ZFS setup and reap the benefits.

The iXsystems do that in TrueNAS SCALE on Debian Linux.

Here:

- https://i.imgur.com/c4WUwb1.png

Unfortunately there is no command like bectl(8) or beadm(8) to manage that.

You have to do that from the WebUI:

- https://i.imgur.com/2JhZ6VB.png

Hope that helps.