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If you're running Linux with ZFS, make sure to have a ZFS-enabled live medium available. The Arch ISO is easy to modify. Various variants with ZFS exist around the net. I believe Ubuntu also ships with ZFS nowadays. I think NixOS too? Not entirely sure, it's been a while.

If you go custom, you can also add drivers/firmware for whatever exotic hardware you have!

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The script available there: https://github.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs makes it extremely easy to add ZFS support to any Arch ISO after it has booted. You can copy any standard ISO to a USB drive, boot off it, then run `curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eoli3n/archiso-zfs/master/... | bash` and you'll have ZFS support in a few seconds, without having anything to worry about.

> without having anything to worry about.

Nothing to worry about except network access, of course, which was the issue in this case. Much better to have it not with ZFS support already enabled.

Indeed (I guess you meant "much better to have it with ZFS support already enabled"). I simply mentioned this for people unaware of the existence of this script who don't have network issues with the Arch ISOs.

Yes, NixOS also ships ZFS in their ISO. It's been super easy coming from ZFS on Arch to NixOS, no hassles with adding custom repos, using DKMS, etc.

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