New 24.10 installation... ZFS or LVM ? (I will use encryption)

[Sorin Srbu]

On tis, 2025-01-21 at 12:05 +0100, Gilles Gravier wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Le mar. 21 janv. 2025 à 11:51, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> a écrit :
> > Does the installer offer ZFS at the disk setup and partitioning steps?
> > 
> > I haven't looked deeper into it, as I usually opt for the defaults >>
> > LVM, guided and so on. But am a bit curious about ZFS now you mentioned
> > it!
> > 
> 
> 
> It does.  It offers "normal" "LVM" "LVM with encryption" "ZFS (Experimental)" "ZFS with encryption (Experimental)"...
> 
> Regardless of whether you pick LVM or ZFS the instal procedes the same. The reboot procedes the same (if encryption, it asks for the encryption password).

Hello!

Aha, "experimental", that's probably why I didn't care to look further
into ZFS.

My understanding is that ZFS requires much RAM to be used efficiently.
I do have 64 GB on my workstation, I just may fire up a Virtualbox and
lab a bit.
May come back with questions... ;-)


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