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I am quite curious to test ZFS, however Arch Linux does not maintain official ZFS packages in repositories, so I would need to maintain my own kernel updates ju

by m45t3r 9y ago

I am quite curious to test ZFS, however Arch Linux does not maintain official ZFS packages in repositories, so I would need to maintain my own kernel updates just to use ZFS. Not interesting to me, specially considering that this is my work laptop. When (if?) Arch supports ZFS in main repos I will probably test it. That is, unless bcachefs comes first.

codys 9y ago
> maintain my own kernel updates Not really: zfs is available in aur as a dkms package. Pacman automatically rebuilds dkms modules when it updates the kernel. All you'd need to do is modify mkinitcpio.conf to include "zfs" in the HOOKS at the appropriate stage. So: more complicated that just using ext4, but not "maintain my own kernel" level of difficulty.