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If you consider normal to self-compile kernel modules on your production machines (or have compiler there, or use mutable system at all), well, then yes. Other
by vetinari 7y ago
If you consider normal to self-compile kernel modules on your production machines (or have compiler there, or use mutable system at all), well, then yes.
Otherwise, it is a massive pita. I do have one machine with zfs, and I made the mistake of placing the root into a subvolume. Won't do that again.
- laumars 7y agoA few distros include ZoL drivers in their repos. There's also FreeBSD as well as the various platforms derived from the, now defunct, OpenSolaris. I've never had compile ZFS myself (though I have, on occasions, chosen to because I've wanted to try features before they hit the repos).
- nicoburns 7y agoI'd rather do that than use a buggy filesystem!
- vetinari 7y agoext4 and xfs are perfectly fine, you don't have to choose only between zfs or btrfs. In their case, being the boring ones, is an important feature. And they are supported by any linux distro out of the box.
- nicoburns 7y agoOh sure. I generally stick to ext4. But IF I needed the advanced features of btrfs/zfs, then I'd choose zfs.