On: ZFS Is the Best Filesystem For Now

[lscotte]

ZFS root absolutely is supported on Ubuntu and Debian. Every Debian system I've built in the past year or so have been 100% ZFS (around 6 physical systems, but I've also built AWS AMIs this way). You have to install via debootstrap, but it's definitely a working and supported configuration. Installer support would sure be welcome though, it's not trivial!

[kuschku → lscotte]

And that’s exactly the issue. You can’t just use ubiquity to set it up, or even the terminal, you have to go a long, complicated, badly documented path.

[weitzj → kuschku]

If you use proxmox (Debian), you do not need a terminal. And you get all the nice proxmox features. But I agree, standalone setup is no fun.

[lscotte → kuschku]

Actually, I do use the terminal to install it. Boot off a liveusb, switch vty, and go.