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The solution seems quite obvious to me in the case of the live cd: Don't ship ZFS on it. The overwhelming majority of users reliant on a CD-ROM drive to insta
by mixedCase 11y ago
The solution seems quite obvious to me in the case of the live cd:
Don't ship ZFS on it.
The overwhelming majority of users reliant on a CD-ROM drive to install a distro do not need nor want ZFS on their system.
- feld 11y agoAre you serious? You're not serious. Are you? What?
- rcthompson 11y agoI disagree. As one example, Apple ships Time Machine with their OS. With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better. Automatic snapshots enabled by default, with optional replication to an external hard drive for backup, could easily be a headline feature for a new version of Ubuntu. Not to mention ZFS compression enabled by default to get more use out of tiny laptop SSDs. Certainly not everyone needs it, but I think there's a definite use case for ZFS (or btrfs, or any similar filesystem) on an ordinary desktop system, even if the user doesn't know what ZFS is.
- mioelnir 11y agoNot theoretically, since it has been done. It is called LifePreserver and originated with PC-BSD years ago; thus available on FreeBSD an FreeNAS as well. I will have a good laugh if Ubuntu is porting it over as a "headline feature".
- rbanffy 11y ago> With ZFS you could theoretically implement the same thing only better. OpenSolaris had that as part of its Gnome file manager. It's even open source.