Someone will correct me if I&#x27;m wrong because I haven&#x27;t used ZFS-on-Linux (my remaining Linux boxes are slowly being converted to all FreeBSD) but I don&#x27;t think you can do &quot;&#x2F; on ZFS&quot; on Ubuntu since ZFS support is via a loadable kernel module (i.e., it&#x27;s not in the mainline kernel -- and apparently never will be).<p>You can install on, e.g., ext4, and then create &#x2F;home as ZFS and then take advantage of all that ZFS offers (such as sending full&#x2F;incremental snapshots like this article talks about).  Or you could put your databases on ZFS and use snapshots to back them up, and so on.