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ZFS on root enables you to have boot environments, which is a functionality originally found on Solaris. Not that they're in scope for this initial implementati

ZFS on root enables you to have boot environments, which is a functionality originally found on Solaris. Not that they're in scope for this initial implementation in Ubuntu, but they could be built on top. Furthermore, ZFS protects you from bitrot via multiple copies or RAIDZ or at least lets you know bitrot occurred (scrub). It lets you resize the dataset (I tend to undersize partitions such as /boot). I could probably think of other reasons as well, but this would be enough for me.

pm7 7y ago
> Furthermore, ZFS protects you from bitrot via multiple copies or RAIDZ or at least lets you know bitrot occurred (scrub). Scrub is not even required for that: all data is checked when read, it's only for checking unused data. > It lets you resize the dataset Considering that you are talking about quota on directories, I'm not sure it is really advantage of ZFS. It's basic functionality.