ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux

Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by predmijat on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:14AM (#38673367)

On Arch, zfs-linux package has an exact version of linux as a dependency. linux package gets updated fairly often, and by the time zfs-linux package catches up, linux is already on a newer version and you are unable to upgrade.

Sometimes it takes quite a while before those two are in sync and you can upgrade your system.

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by tobias2014 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:58AM (#38673682)

In addition to the other comments: you could use the zfs-dkms package which builds it from source on every update

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by mzi on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:30AM (#38673486)

If you reorder your repositories so the zfs repository comes before the default one in the configuration you won't have that problem.

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by commandersaki on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:06AM (#38673742)

Huh, interesting, will have to try that out, thanks.

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by 79a6ed87 on Sunday December 17, 2023 @11:46AM (#38674083)

Targetting the linux-lts package as a dependency instead of linux should reduce the impact of this issue

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by hnlmorg on Sunday December 17, 2023 @10:16AM (#38673388)

Is there lts kernel support for zfs-linux? I found I had to switch to the lts kernel on an Arch gaming rig because of issues with Nvidia drivers.

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by aperum on Sunday December 17, 2023 @03:03PM (#38675881)

There is zfs-linux-lts for that.

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Re:ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux by enormousness on Sunday December 17, 2023 @04:13PM (#38676486)

You can install the specific older version of the Linux package that the zfs package needs. You can also pin it so it won't get updated by regular upgrades.

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