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I would prefer to do this on zfs, for which there is a lovely installation guide on the openzfs docs site.

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

I can vouch for how good it works. Using it on my personal laptop.

I tried ZFS-on-linux with Ubuntu 21.10 and it ate my data (ZFS panics when accessing certain files). Sure, Ubuntu does have a habit of using unstable kernels, but I was still disappointed. It should be stable at this point.

That corruption was caused by a patch that Ubuntu created themselves, it was never in upstream. ZFS on any other platform would be OK.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/190...

I've never tried Ubuntu, but zfs has been rock solid on Fedora, Arch and Debian for me. Whatever the issue that hit you was, I hope recent versions of Ubuntu/zfs have fixed it.

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