> various things point to ZFS being de facto deprecated
I'm not sure that's the case? Your link points to the ZFS on root install being deprecated on the desktop. I'm not sure what inference you/we can draw from that considering ZFS is a major component to LXD, and Ubuntu and Linux's sweet spot is as a server OS.
> Ubuntu were shipping binary ZFS modules at one point, but they have walked back from that.
Not to be persnickety, but this was your claim, and Ubuntu is still shipping ZFS binary modules on all it's current releases.
Yeah, my wording was clumsy, but thanks for assuming good faith. I essentially meant their enthusiasm had wained.
It's good you can give reasons ZFS is still important to Ubuntu on the server, although as a desktop user I'm sad nobody wants to ship ZFS for the desktop.
I'm not sure that's the case? Your link points to the ZFS on root install being deprecated on the desktop. I'm not sure what inference you/we can draw from that considering ZFS is a major component to LXD, and Ubuntu and Linux's sweet spot is as a server OS.
> Ubuntu were shipping binary ZFS modules at one point, but they have walked back from that.
Not to be persnickety, but this was your claim, and Ubuntu is still shipping ZFS binary modules on all it's current releases.