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It's fairly easy to extend the program to support other Debian-based operating systems (e.g. older/newer Ubuntu's, etc.) - the project is (very) open to feature requests. It's fairly easy to extend the program to support other Debian-based operating systems (e.g. older/newer Ubuntu's, etc.) - the project is (very) open to feature requests.
## Advantages over the Ubuntu built-in installer ## Comparison with Ubuntu built-in installer
With Ubuntu 19.10, Canonical released an experimental ZFS installer. The advantages of this project over this installer are: As of 20.04, Canonical makes available an experimental ZFS installer on Ubuntu Desktop.
1. on production systems, it's undesirable to use a non-LTS version; The advantages of this project over the Ubuntu installer are:
2. the experimental Ubuntu installer is unconfigurable; it generates a fixed setup.
additionally, as explained in the previous section, the script can be easily adapted for other operating systems. 1. it supports pools configuration;
2. it allows customization of the disks setup (including mirroring);
3. it supports additional features (e.g. encryption);
4. it supports many more operating systems;
5. it supports unattended installations, via custom scripts;
6. it's easy to extend.
The disadvantages are:
1. the Ubuntu installer has a more sophisticated filesystem layout - it separates base directories into different ZFS filesystems (this is planned to be implemented in the ZFS installer as well).
## Instructions ## Instructions