On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:27 PM right.maple.nut via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
Hello All,
Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server for my Home Network.
Given that I will have to go to the trouble of setting up the Distro and Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I don't want to have to do this too many times.
So, which Distro are the favourite for Running ZFS-on-Linux?
Also, is there such a thing as a Linux Distro that is smart enough to give you a choice if you are willing to use non-GPL'ed code in the Installer, so that I can just Install Directly on a ZFS Pool?
I think that if I were certain I wanted a ZFS machine on my network, I'd look into one of the Illumos variants, most likely OmniOS. https://omniosce.org/ That is a fork of Solaris, which is where ZFS is really native. All the other implementations of ZFS are ports, and likely a bit less satisfactory. That obviously isn't Linux. But it shouldn't be ridiculously unfamiliar.