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I dual booted my machine Win10 and Arch on ZFS Root. Admittedly I used Win10 like 99% so there was always a laundry list of updates when I booted into Arch. It
by Caligatio 4y ago
I dual booted my machine Win10 and Arch on ZFS Root. Admittedly I used Win10 like 99% so there was always a laundry list of updates when I booted into Arch. It seemed ZFS broke 20% of the time I updated. It was either the silly GRUB config fix that wasn't upstreamed getting overwritten or the ZFS module build somehow failed. I got so frustrated that I just nuked the whole install.
I realize that ZFS is a weird bolt-on but the fact that kernel modules failing to build doesn't cause significant error messages and/or failure is silly. Arch is great but Arch on ZFS felt like my Gentoo days: I want to have fun using my computer, not constantly fiddling to make my computer usable.
- nubinetwork 4y agoIt's not worth your time to use grub if you run zfs... the zfs module in grub only supports the ancient feature flag set from Solaris 9/10, its a miracle that it even works on Linux at all... It also doesn't help that grub is spearheaded by Oracle employees, and as such, they couldn't give a rats ass about maintaining the module. (And if they do, it'll be to add more Oracle Solaris features rather than zfs on linux/bsd/illumos)