Due to a certain motherboard manufacturer having no quality control of their firmware updates, my previous home lab server had 4 of it's 12 DIMM slots fail. This necesitated a rapid replacement of the machine, as I use it heavily for work. While frustrating, rather than lift my existing OpenSUSE Leap install to the new machine, I decided to reinstall - this time, with ZFS as the root filesystem. I have had enough issues with BTRFS performance and reliability to finally commit to moving away f...