Re:Scripts for Btrfs Maintenance
by candiddevmike on Wednesday June 07, 2023 @07:51AM
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Anecdotally, I've had so much trouble running Linux on a ZFS root. Failing DKMS builds or installing a kernel that is too new or old for the ZFS components has rendered my system unbootable enough that I switched to BTRFS.
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The only time I've heard this happening is on Ubuntu. Don't use Ubuntu, and switch to Debian or SUSE, and your problems go away.
The only times I've ever heard of this not being Ubuntu pathology is people running builds of the kernel from git, and not keeping track of the extremely rare breaking changes that effect ZFS (OpenZFS's git repo for the kernel modules are updated quickly, and breaking changes are often handled ahead of time; all of this is fixed before stable kernels get released nowadays).