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Similar projects and alternatives to zsys
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zfsbootmenu
ZFS bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
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How to maintain 20% minimum free space on bpool
From this bug report on github, here is a clear explanation of the problem:
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The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop Is Not Looking Good
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
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Desktop OS with ZFS
Example: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/155
- Don't use ZSYS (on Ubuntu 22.04)
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Backup Solution: fully automated, complete system backup, incremental and with web GUI functionality (snapshots / history)?
Heard of it, but I have no idea how it works and if I must install ubuntu server completely new. After a bit googling it seems dead? “It seems the project has been dead for months now. What going on?” https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/213
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Ubuntu 22.04 Root on ZFS
Ubuntu isn't my preferred OS these days, but I've had excellent experiences with it's ZFS root installs as well as it's included zsys: https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys
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zfs on root with 22.04 without zsys
Re: things I've actually dealt with, see -- #172
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Moving rpool/USERDATA to separate pool
I even filed a very polite GH issue about how zsys doesn't handle other systems/sanoid snapshots well, to which I got no response. However, a previous response to a user with the same issue was "Turn that other method of snapshot-ing off and delete your other snapshots" which, I'm sorry, just doesn't make any sense to say to any ZFS user -- "Pound sand and delete some of your data, then maybe it will work." Say what?
- Canonical puts zsys on life support (2.5 Admins)
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Help with ZFS on Ubuntu
https://github.com/ubuntu/zsys/issues/112 - This could be an incompatibility with the way docker stores volumes, but this looks like it should've been fixed a while ago?
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Stats
Basic zsys repo stats
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5.4
about 2 years ago
ubuntu/zsys is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 only which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of zsys is Go.
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