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The Future of ZFS on Ubuntu Desktop is Not Looking Good

Is Ubuntu on ZFS a dead effort? In 2019 Canonical seemed pretty upbeat about the contentious file system, hyping the release of Ubuntu 19.10 and its (experimental) option to install Ubuntu (kernel, system files, and user data) on a ZFS volume. It was a surprising move making Ubuntu the first major Linux distro to embrace ZFS in-spite of the issues surrounding its licensing. However, since then things have gone backwards. Last year Ubuntu developers pushed to remove Zsys, an integral tool they created to make it easier to manage and maintain ZFS-based installations, from Ubuntu’s Ubiquity installer. In the corresponding :sys_more_orange:

:sys_omgubuntu: omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/01/ubuntu

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