The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop Is Not Looking Good

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  • zsys

    ZSys daemon and client for zfs systems

  • This is a good thing for ZFS and public perception of ZFS. Ubuntu has made some very poor choices with how they've integrated ZFS -

    * zsys has both implementation and design flaws. They utilize two zpools - one with limited feature flags that GRUB can use and one general pool, and then try to tightly couple datasets between those two pools while coordinating snapshots. zsys routinely runs a system out of space due to not cleaning up snapshots. It's been known to destroy user data as well.

    https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/196

  • zfsbootmenu

    ZFS Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption

  • For sure don't need a limited boot pool. Take a look at https://zfsbootmenu.org - we do it with a single EFI application.

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