Ubuntu Desktop ZFS Install Support Lands In Ubiquity Installer

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Desktop ZFS Install Support Lands In Ubiquity Installer

With less than two weeks to go until the Ubuntu 19.10 release, on Friday the experimental ZFS root file-system install support was merged into the Ubuntu desktop "Ubiquity" installer...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubiquity-ZFS-Install-Lands

[elatllat]

btrfs lacks "raw encrypted replication" so zfs is still in the lead.

[Awesomeness]

EXT4, of course, will remain the default

Of course? Others already moved beyond Ext4 to XFS.

[starshipeleven]

Of course? Others already moved beyond Ext4 to XFS.

XFS and ext4 are more or less sidegrades (i.e. similar enough for most intents and purposes), regardless of what fanbois of each side can say.

[archsway]

Hang on, where are all the comments complaining about:

a) Anti-ZFS kernel developers
b) ZFS vs. Btrfs and Stratis
c) GRUB and systemd-boot
d) SystemD in general
e) Canonical
f) GPL and CDDL

This is phoronix I'm on, right?

[uid313]

Ubuntu 19.10 have an old version of Git. 😥️

[starshipeleven]

Ubuntu 19.10 have an old version of Git. 😥️

What feature of the newer Git you need?

[starshipeleven]

Hang on, where are all the comments complaining about:

Yeah it's a slow day.

[uid313]

What feature of the newer Git you need?

I don't know. I just want the latest so I know that it is safe, the bugs have been fixed, and I got the usability improvements, and when I look something up no the web how to do something, then the commands works.

[DanL]

Ubuntu 19.10 have an old version of Git. 😥️

And that's relevant to the topic... in what way?