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Linux => New to Ubuntu => Topic started by: mahesh on Sep 14, 2023, 03:34 AM

Title: ZFS root install, ZFS additional drives
Post by: mahesh on Sep 14, 2023, 03:34 AM
I wanted to install 20.04 LTS zfs root on 2x nvme striped but the installer currently only supports single disk so I installed on an SSD and created my nvme striped pool after the fact; no problems.

Is there a better way to do this that integrates this pool into the desktop environment? The desktop has no problem showing the SSD capacity/file system but the nvmes 'do not exist' and the pool/datasets are only exposed as a folder mount. I've seen guides on forcing a multidisk install but I imagine the outcome would be the same.

As a more general question, has anyone considered makings zfs datasets 'look different' both on the CLI and GUI? ie with some special character prefix/suffix and/or different color in GUI. It would be nice to see better zfs integration ie right-click 'add/delete dataset'. As an experiment, I created a dataset from CLI then tried to delete it in destktop; it disappeared in the folder/gui but did nothing at the zfs level and reappeared after reboot.

Thanks