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Well, ZFS not being in the kernel is the easy reason I don't use zfs.

The reason I don't use btrfs is I don't want to deal with problems I currently don't have. ENOSPC with space available, performance issues when space available, quotas.

I want evolution from where I am, not jump ship.

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>ZFS not being in the kernel

To the end user the functionality is identical whether or not it's in the kernel as opposed to just being a kernel module

Now try booting off it with it 1) not being supported in the kernel, 2) not using Ubuntu, 3) figuring out how to boot into a previous snapshot easily

I have zfs on root with nixos since day 1. One line of code, as other fs like ext4, btrfs or bcachefs.

yes but nixos requires a degree in nixos. let me know when it's accessible by mere mortal nerds who have enough new tech to stay on top of that "getting a degree in adminning my OS" is too prohibitive

OpenZFS.org have pretty good guide on varies distributions.

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/ind...

It is as easy as "Copy and Paste", but not "point and click" easy

I'm curious why that's a blocker for you? It doesn't seem to affect me at all really.

I call it the "easy" answer because I am old and "time is expensive" to me and I'm not rich.

I want to depend on others on what to spend my time on and using in kernel on whether to "jump ship" is a filter I've decided. YMMV. Like I said, I don't use btrfs either.

It’s distributed as a DKMS module, it’s not like we’re all doing `cd /usr/src/linux && make config`

You run apt-get. Kernel gets updated. The ZFS module doesn't compile under the new kernel.

I'm not aware of any distros except NixOS which will then proceed to roll back the entire transaction.

Fedora CoreOS can rollback the operating system to a previous state on errors. This could be done as soon as you can‘t mount the kernel module anymore after an update.

Don't boot the new kernel?

On arch I just run the LTS kernel. I've _never_ had zfs module not build.

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