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It's relatively easy to get it working as a kernel module at least. I got it set up on a NixOS box without too much trouble.

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Not something I'd want to do with my filesystem though. ZFS is different story it it isn't on the root fs because it might be packaged by the distribution.

Fair, I still don’t use it on my main machine, just a shitty laptop that I keep around to play with.

there are tricks to avoid needing distro support / kernel modules for ZFS: https://github.com/pirate/zfsbox

also tricks to make it easy to convert a root FS to ZFS now that Ubuntu Server 24.04 added native root-on-zfs support: https://github.com/pirate/zfsify

I hadn't heard of zfsify, but I think I'll check it out on yet another old laptop running ext4.

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