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I solved the ZFS DKMS bork issue by moving to Debian 11 from Centos 8. I've had zero openZFS issues since the move. On Centos it would require work every time a sufficient kernel upgrade came in.

Since I'm familiar with RHEL I just swapped some of the Debian default services for RHELish alternatives (Firewalld, Podman, etc.).



I'm also using Debian; have been since Wheezy. I also template my VMs with Packer/Ansible though, so in the event it gets too messy or annoying to fix, I just export the pool and import it to a new VM.

The last issue I had was that linux-headers didn't get installed with the kernel update, so DKMS couldn't build on them. I assumed they were a dependency for zfs-dkms, but no.




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