• CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    7 months ago

    I love ZFS but support for it on Ubuntu seems haphazard. It works fine for non-root drives.

    I’ve tried running it as my root partition and just gave up after it fucked up my bpool dataset too many times.

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        7 months ago

        Yup. It booted fine but after a few reboots, bpool somehow got corrupted and refused to boot. It happened repeatedly after several reinstalls.

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          7 months ago

          ZFS hits memory hard and sometimes can bring out latent deficiencies in that hardware. on non-optimal hardware its a bit of a hardware torture test in its own right.

          having said that, EXT4 and XFS are wonderful unless you need zfs/btrfs.

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          7 months ago

          Yeah, the current implementation from the installer never got beyond the experimental stage when it was first introduced. I saw there’s a new “guided setup” in the 24.04 release notes. No idea what it entails yet. I think I’ve also seen a page for setting it up for / in OpenZFS’es docs. I might try it at some point.