Hey Amos,

Why not FreeBSD?

This is one of the first projects to get ZFS ported, in my experience it's the closest thing to general-purpose linux distro in BSD land that you can get.

All the GNU tools are available for FreeBSD and shell commands aren't that arcane.

If you're only going to use the machine for hosting ZFS it might be worth it.

Alex.

On 2018-08-24 2:26 p.m., right.maple.nut via talk 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?

Thank You in Advance for your Input.

Regards,

Amos
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