Yes you can use ZFS on the root partition. I imagine you could build
the module on most distros, and work to include the module in the
custom module in the kernel. On Arch it needs a ZFS hook for the root
partition for native ZFS.
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Jeremy MountainJohnson
Jeremy.MountainJohnson at gmail.com


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Brian Wall <kc0iog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Michael Greenly <mgreenly at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I've been using native ZFS on Linux without issue.  They have packages for
>> most major distributions as well.
>
> Neat.. does that imply that I could run my root partition as ZFS?  One
> of the down sides to running zfs-fuse is of course that it can only
> support userland ZFS.
>
> Brian
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