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Re:OpenZFS 2.0 by accelbred on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:25AM (#25263179)
Ubuntu's kernel isn't exactly keeping up to date though. I assume the person you were replying to may be following mainline.

As someone using new kernel version as they are released, I'm not willing to use a filesystem that may break with a kernel update. It also seems openzfs only supports up to kernel 5.6, according the the github release. I'm on 5.9, so its not even an option.

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Re:OpenZFS 2.0 by OJFord on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @07:21AM (#25264543)
Yeah, too many scary notes and warnings for me.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ZFS

I would need a package that depends on zfs and provides linux-kernel at an appropriate version. Can't have something so critical break because of an upgrade, and I don't want to pin it and forget to upgrade it (also fairly anti-arch).

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Re:OpenZFS 2.0 by kitotik on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:10AM (#25264229)
I’ve ran the latest kernel with latest openzfs git since around kernel 4.x, currently on 5.9.11. I build inkernel as opposed to a module.

There have been a couple cases where I had to wait a week or two for compatibility fixed to get merged into zfs git, but otherwise staying up to date has not been a problem.

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