Aye but ZFS on Linux is rock solid and definitely the way to go.<p>Technically you don&#x27;t need ZFS to use the Manatee state machine. You could swap out the ZFS snapshot transfer service to use pg_basebackup instead.<p>For anyone interested I have made the appropriate alterations to Manatee to get it to run on Ubuntu with the standard ubuntu-zfs packages.<p>The fork is here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephglanville&#x2F;manatee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephglanville&#x2F;manatee</a><p>Chef cookbook to help you get started along with the other dependencies: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephglanville&#x2F;cookbook-manatee" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;josephglanville&#x2F;cookbook-manatee</a>