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by adiabatichottub 92 days ago
Right. On my development workstation I use Arch and I'm always worried a kernel upgrade is going to break the ZFS module. For those that aren't familiar, ZFS isn't part of mainline Linux because of licensing incompatibility (and general distrust of Oracle).

On FreeBSD I know its always going to work.
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akimbostrawman 91 days ago
>I use Arch and I'm always worried a kernel upgrade is going to break the ZFS modulet

That can only happen if you use the unreliable DKMS way of installing it. If you use zfs-linux provided by archzfs it will only allow updating if it's compatible with the kernel, which in linux-lts case is within couple hours of a kernel update.

https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ZFS#Kernel-specific_package...

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grahamjperrin 92 days ago
> … For those that aren't familiar, ZFS isn't part of mainline Linux because of licensing incompatibility (and general distrust of Oracle). …

It's probably fair to say that trust in Oracle is irrelevant to OpenZFS.

Where Linux does use ZFS: to the best of my knowledge, it's typically OpenZFS – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47407937 is my own use case.

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adiabatichottub 91 days ago
I was mainly referring to statements made by Linus Torvalds that got a lot of press. Canonical seems undeterred by any such arguments.
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