[Discuss] Is there a BLU recommended distro?

[Elliott Mitchell]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 04:39:05PM -0400, Rich Pieri wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Jul 2026 13:14:04 -0700
> Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 7/17/26 12:41 PM, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > > unlike debian, [Ubuntu] has ZFS preinstalled.  
> > 
> > I don't think Debian still missing ZFS.
> 
> Debian has included ZFS in kFreeBSD since Squeeze (Debian 6) and in
> contrib since Stretch (Debian 9). Root on ZFS on Linux kernel is not an
> out of the box option.

Yet such can readily be implemented:

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/index.html

I will say I'm rather unimpressed with some OpenZFS decisions.  I'm
rather surprised my workaround is still the only way to get the tools
to work correctly:

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.


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