ZFS + Manjaro = Kernel panic

Again, why?

I’m not trying to sound rude, but what is the practical reasoning for installing Manjaro to a ZFS root?

It’s overly complex to do in the first place, and there’s greater risk in maintaining and updating your system.

ZFS on your NAS makes sense.

On a dedicate data storage pool (on a Manjaro system) makes sense.

Heck, one could argue that it’s not too far-fetched (but still with some inherent maintenance risks) to use for your /home.

But why the root system?

If you’re dead-set to use Manjaro on a ZFS root, then I wish you the best of luck. I just want to chime in that I personally am a huge fan of ZFS (I use it a lot!), yet I will not install Manjaro to a ZFS root.

Reconsider using BTRFS (if you want snapshot rollbacks with Timeshift), or the tried-and-true EXT4 or XFS.

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