* 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.
Unless you’re using Debian backports, and they backport a new kernel a week before the zfs backport package update happens.
Happened to me more than once. I ended up manually changing the kernel version limitations the second time just to get me back online, but I don’t recall if that ended up hurting me in the long run or not.
Try CachyOS https://cachyos.org/ , you can even swap from an existing Arch installation:
https://wiki-dev.cachyos.org/sk/cachyos_repositories/how_to_...
There is a trick for this:
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.
I use NixOS, and it simply updates to the latest kernel that supports zfs, with a single, declerative option.
for Debian that's not exactly a problem
Unless you’re using Debian backports, and they backport a new kernel a week before the zfs backport package update happens.
Happened to me more than once. I ended up manually changing the kernel version limitations the second time just to get me back online, but I don’t recall if that ended up hurting me in the long run or not.