Exactly this. As a European I don’t feel comfortable anymore relying on any US service for essential needs. Stuff like youtube is fine, it’s just entertainment. But I cannot rely on big tech on anything that, if suddenly gone one day, would cause me any sort of actual annoyance. When you think about it the list is quite long and sneaky.
Really good to know. Planned to keep using very mainstream LTS versions anyway, but this solidifies the decision. Maybe on a laptop I’ll install something more experimental but that’s then throwaway style.
Right, thanks for the heads up! On the desktops I have simply installed zfs as root via the Ubuntu 24.04 installer. Then, as the option was not available in the server variant I started to think maybe that is not something that should be done :p
Aight thank you so much, confirms I’m on the right path! This clarifies a lot, I’ll keep the ext4 boot drive :)
Thanks! Can I ask what is your setup like? ZFS on bare metal? Do you have VMs?
Something to consider, advice given to me, is that ZFS support on Linux regularly breaks with newest kernels so if you go for ZFS long term, be prepared to run a lts kernel at least as a backup.
I use both. LUKS+btrfs being nice on the Arch desktops, and ZFS on a serverside pool, managed by a TrueNAS Scale VM.