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

Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu at ki.se
Tue Jan 21 14:33:40 UTC 2025


On tis, 2025-01-21 at 11:11 +0000, Sorin Srbu via ubuntu-users wrote:
> 
> > 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... ;-)

Hello again,

Just fired up Virtualbox and used a Kubuntu 24.04.1 ISO-image for a
test install.
This ISO only lists ext4, XFS and butterfs. No ZFS.

Did I miss something here? ZFS isn't available on 24.04.1? Or is it a
difference between the Kubuntu and Ubuntu desktop variants?

Thanks.





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