[Discuss] Is there a BLU recommended distro?

[ehem+blu at m5p.com (Elliott Mitchell)]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 07:59:28PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:17:01 -0700
> Elliott Mitchell <ehem+blu at m5p.com> wrote:
> 
> > https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/94#issuecomment-405137312
> > 
> > I'm really astonished such a choice was made in the first place, then
> > not reverted almost instantly.
> 
> ZFS on Linux didn't make this choice. Sun did. The extra partition
> exists because Solaris requires it, and it continues to exist so that
> your ZFS vdevs will work (at least in principle) on BSD and Illumos.

I could believe this originated at Oracle^WSun.  Thing is this was
added to OpenZFS around 2011, after they stopped releasing source.  As
such this had to have been deliberately duplicated by OpenZFS.  FreeBSD
among others uses OpenZFS, yet this never propogated to FreeBSD, only
Linux.

I'm sure Solaris wants this, pretty well no one else does.


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