Having read through the thread to date, I'm actually a little disappointed at the number of linux users pushing towards a Solaris or BSD for ZFS. My primary File servers (4 of them) are all using ZFS for their data partitions. Amos, ## Couple of Answers to your questions A) Disto? I regularly run ZFS on CentOS and Fedora on a mix of SSDs and HDDs of both the internal and external varieties. Fedora has some caveats, only in that sometimes the kernel releases get ahead of what the ZFS on linux team will support. And it's just a matter of waiting on a working kernel zfs combination a week or two for them to catch up. But frankly, just pick your favorite distro and follow the relevant getting started guide. https://zfsonlinux.org/ B) Distro with ZFS root support (at install time)? No distro install supports this yet as I've seen. Although the do it yourself ubuntu guide is lengthy, but very well detailed. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-18.04-Root-on-ZFS Arch also support ZFS root, but their installation is all largely manual to begin with. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS ## Couple of my own Questions 1) Why root (/) on ZFS, what is your use case / risk your trying to mitigate? On 2018-08-24 02:26 PM, 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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