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by jsiepkes 620 days ago
ZFS on Linux is not really usable for most users because every kernel update can break your ZFS compatibility.

Meaning unless you want to put in the time to manually test every kernel update and ensure your kernel version stays in-sync with OpenZFS you can very likely end up with an unbootable system.

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Ubuntu supports ZFS, so if you can track Ubuntu's kernel, you get ZFS without risking unbootable system.
This is one of the main reasons Void Linux is "stuck" on kernel 6.6.
You mean apart from 6.6 being the current latest longterm kernel?

https://kernel.org/

The 'linux' package on Void is just a meta package. Install whatever kernel series you want. I'm running 6.10.11, with ZFS 2.2.6 on my Void workstation.