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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by secabeen on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:47AM (#25162174)
> With that said, ZFS on linux is slightly awkward as it's out of tree, and most distros build the module with DKMS. I don't entirely trust this for using for / (so my / is just a md raid1) - I use zfs for bulk data instead. btrfs is in-kernel, so there's no real disadvantage with using it for /.

Is that true? RHEL/CentOS have both DMKS and kmod versions; in Ubuntu ZFS is a supported package. That's not most distros, certainly, but it is the ones most people use.

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Re:An Introduction to ZFS by minimaul on Saturday November 21, 2020 @01:08PM (#25171419)
Based on using CentOS + DKMS, Debian + DKMS, and Arch + DKMS :) Some of these have prebuilt modules too, but as community projects they usually lag behind kernel releases to the main distro, and that can be a problem. So I always end up using DKMS.

Not used Ubuntu ZFS, admittedly. Haven't used Ubuntu since 2010 or earlier.

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