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> but only a kernel so it is in my opinion not really right to say that it has no support. The kernel has no native support for ZFS. Ubuntu may ship with ZFS
by PlutoIsAPlanet 4y ago
> but only a kernel so it is in my opinion not really right to say that it has no support.
The kernel has no native support for ZFS.
Ubuntu may ship with ZFS, but that's one distro. Meanwhile, RHEL etc won't even touch it.
On Linux, XFS dominates and likely will continue to dominate the server world, meanwhile btrfs will slowly erase ext4 in the desktop side of things. Android/Embedded have always used their own different filesystems so it's irrelevant there.
- throw0101c 4y ago> The kernel has no native support for ZFS. Neither does it have accelerated Nvidia card support that could be used for things like HPC/AI/ML. Yet I'm administrating an entire cluster of Ubuntu machines with cards just fine. We generally use the "nvidia-driver-NNN-server" package. If you want to live ideologically pure no one is going to stop you, but someone of us need to get work done.
- WastingMyTime89 4y agoIt’s not about ideological purity. I don’t want to touch anything a serious Linux distribution won’t support and I don’t consider Ubuntu - a derivative of the over-patched mess that is Debian - a serious distribution. ZFS is in a very weird position on Linux. It’s unfortunate but that’s mostly due to Sun and Oracle so I don’t feel bad stating people shouldn’t use it.
- dfc 4y agoWhat packages do you think are overly patched in Debian?
- throw0101c 4y ago> I don’t want to touch anything a serious Linux distribution won’t support and I don’t consider Ubuntu - a derivative of the over-patched mess that is Debian - a serious distribution. What defines a "serious distribution"?
- PlutoIsAPlanet 4y agoIt's not about ideologies, using modules outside the kernel is never a good experience for those who use up-to-date distros (e.g. Arch, Fedora etc).