Comment by stephen_g

5 days ago

I’m interested to know what ‘full integration’ does look like, I use ZFS in Proxmox (Debian-based) and it’s really great and super solid, but I haven’t used ZFS in more vanilla Linux distros. Does Proxmox have things that regular Linux is missing out on, or are there shortcomings and things I just don’t realise about Proxmox?

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stephen_g

whataguy 5 days ago

The difference is that the ZFS kernel module is included by default with Proxmox, whereas with e.g. Debian, you would need to install it manually.

pimeys 5 days ago
And you can't follow the latest kernel before the ZFS module supports it.
- BSDobelix 5 days ago
  
  Try CachyOS https://cachyos.org/ , you can even swap from an existing Arch installation:
  https://wiki-dev.cachyos.org/sk/cachyos_repositories/how_to_...
- ryao 4 days ago
  
  There is a trick for this:
  * Step 1: Make friends with a ZFS developer. * Step 2: Guilt him into writing patches to add support as soon as a new kernel is released. * Step 3: Enjoy
  Adding support for a new kernel release to ZFS is usually only a few hours of work. I have done it in the past more than a dozen times.
- gf000 4 days ago
  
  I use NixOS, and it simply updates to the latest kernel that supports zfs, with a single, declerative option.
- blibble 5 days ago
  
  for Debian that's not exactly a problem
  
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BodyCulture 4 days ago

You probably don’t realise how important encryption is.

It’s still not supported by Proxmox, yes, you can do it yourself somehow but you are alone then and miss features and people report problems with double or triple file system layers.

I do not understand how they have not encryption out of the box, this seems to be a problem.

kevinmgranger 4 days ago

I'm not sure about proxmox, but ZFS on Linux does have encryption.