Just use something else for your root file system, and zfs for the rest. I've been running Zol for 10 years (on arch) and had to recover a few times, but it was

Just use something else for your root file system, and zfs for the rest. I've been running Zol for 10 years (on arch) and had to recover a few times, but it was never difficult because of the totally standard setup except for the data disks.