Experienced ZFS user converting to Qubes

It’s getting there.

As of February, you can now install zfs on your Qubes system natively from the repos. This should be all you need to install (I have not tested): qubes-dom0-update zfs zfs-dkms . From there create your zpool and then designate it as a qubes pool with qvm-pool.

On a fresh install, I recommend not migrating anything, but creating the smallest possible initial pool on lvm, where only your sys-qubes will live, and then make a big zfs pool for everything you actually care about (set it to be default pool).

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