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        RJDan
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        Hello

        I have an external harddrive that I use for as a portable 'home partition'. Its formatted with zfs and I have been using to to effortlessly move between using different computers (laptop, desktop, work) and have all my files all the time.
        If I wanted to use it with an Ubuntu touch device, I would need to have a functioning zfs installation on the device. I heard in one of the podcasts that installing things via apt is not supported and the root partition only has 3GB of space.

        Is it feasible/possible to install zfs on UT? I guess a snap installation of zfs is very unlikely.

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          ikoz @RJDan
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          @RJDan The problem in this case is worse than that of installing packages via apt (which has workarounds).
          Zfs needs a dkms package installed which as far as I know cannot work in UT kernels. It should be possible however to compile the kernel with zfs support beforehand.
          An other way is to use libfuse to have the filesystem in userspace to not mess up with the OS, you have to search how to do that on your own though.

          Also, do you really need all the features of zfs or can btrfs work for you (which is in-tree)?

          May the source be with you

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