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richteer
November 19th, 2018, 06:49 PM
Hi there,

This is my first post here, so my apologies if this is off topic!

I'm a long-time ZFS user (since the very early Solaris 10 days) and Ubuntu's support of ZFS is the primary reason why I chose it for my home server. I would like to know when will ZFS be officially supported as the root file system? I used a how-to to do this for my 16.04 installation and plan to upgrade to 18.04 soon. It would be really nice to see ZFS offered as a file system choice at installation time.

A related question is when will Ubuntu support the concept of different ZFS-powered boot environments (for example, like BSD's beadm command)? BEs make upgrading and (more importantly) rolling back if necessary very quick and easy.

Any answered gratefully received!

Cheers,

Rich

TheFu
November 20th, 2018, 04:01 AM
Nobody here works for Canonical.

richteer
November 20th, 2018, 06:48 PM
Nobody here works for Canonical.

Oh. That's disappointing but thanks for the info.

Is there a better place to ask this kind of question?

Cheers,

Rich

deadflowr
November 20th, 2018, 07:07 PM
Is there a better place to ask this kind of question?
The developers discussion mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
that or IRC.

richteer
November 22nd, 2018, 12:15 AM
The developers discussion mailing list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
that or IRC.

Thanks; I'll try the mailing list!