Something to consider, advice given to me, is that ZFS support on Linux regularly breaks with newest kernels so if you go for ZFS long term, be prepared to run a lts kernel at least as a backup.

I use both. LUKS+btrfs being nice on the Arch desktops, and ZFS on a serverside pool, managed by a TrueNAS Scale VM.

Really good to know. Planned to keep using very mainstream LTS versions anyway, but this solidifies the decision. Maybe on a laptop I’ll install something more experimental but that’s then throwaway style.

Right, thanks for the heads up! On the desktops I have simply installed zfs as root via the Ubuntu 24.04 installer. Then, as the option was not available in the server variant I started to think maybe that is not something that should be done :p

Aight thank you so much, confirms I’m on the right path! This clarifies a lot, I’ll keep the ext4 boot drive :)

Thanks! Can I ask what is your setup like? ZFS on bare metal? Do you have VMs?