On Tuesday, February 6, 2024 4:38:11 PM CET Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2024-02-05, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > > On Wednesday, January 31, 2024 6:56:47 PM CET Rich Freeman wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 12:40 PM Thelma <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: > >> > If zfs file system is superior to ext4 and it seems to it is. > >> > Why hasn't it been adopted more widely in Linux? > >> > >> The main barrier is that its license isn't GPL-compatible. It is > >> FOSS, but the license was basically designed to keep it from being > >> incorporated into the mainline kernel. > > > > Which isn't as much of an issue as it sounds. You can still add it > > into the initramfs and can easily load the module. > > What if you don't use an initrd? > > I presume that boot/root on ext4 and home on ZFS would not require an > initrd?
Yes, that wouldn't require an initrd. But why would you limit this? ZFS works best when given the FULL drive. For my server, I use "bliss-initramfs" to generate the initramfs and have not had any issues with this since I started using ZFS. Especially the ease of generating snapshots also make it really easy to roll back an update if anything went wrong. If your root-partition isn't on ZFS, you can't easily roll back. -- Joost
