On Thursday, August 13, 2020 01:45:59 PM Tom Dial wrote: > Debian ZFS root (and boot) is not *that* hard; see the instructions at > > https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Getting%20Started/Debian/Debian%20B > uster%20Root%20on%20ZFS.html > > They certainly are not harder than installing early Debian releases (as > I remember it from around 20 years ago, and should not be hard for > anyone building a backup system and server. Installation as an > additional file system should not be notably different from installing a > file system package from main, except for the notice the GPL > incompatibility notice that will pop up during installation. > > I would recommend installing from buster-backports to get the current > openzfs release which includes improvements (notably native encryption) > as well as fixes.
Two questions: * Most of my backup will be done from a Wheezy system -- can I install ZFS on Wheezy? * If I plug the USB drive into another machine without ZFS installed -- hmm, well I guess I'd have to install ZFS to use the drive?