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good OS for an incus host?

Marcus Rohrmoser <work@mro.name>
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are some of you using Alpine to host incus[1]?

With ZFS?

It sounds appealing to have a slim server running the container infrastructure itself, doesn't it?

/Marcus

[1]: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
Thomas Böhler <witcher@wiredspace.de>
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On Mon Jun 1, 2026 at 5:34 PM CEST, Marcus Rohrmoser wrote:
> are some of you using Alpine to host incus[1]?
>
> With ZFS?

I'm not using Incus, but I do have a few devices running ZFS on Alpine,
both on root with ZFSBootMenu (although this isn't packaged properly yet
and I'm using the EFI executable provided by upstream) and for storage
disks and there haven't been any issues on my side.

If it helps, there exists a fairly basic ZFS wiki page for Alpine:
https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/ZFS

> It sounds appealing to have a slim server running the container
> infrastructure itself, doesn't it?

> /Marcus
>
> [1]: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/

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Hi Marcus,

I have been running both incus-feature on my everyday laptop (Alpine 
edge) and incus (LTS) on a server (Alpine 3.23, probably began on an 
earlier release) for a year or two, both using ZFS datasets for storage. 
It has been simple and boring, in a good way. :)

Let me know if you have any specific questions.

Best,
Edin

Jun 1, 2026 17:35:14 Marcus Rohrmoser <work@mro.name>:

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> are some of you using Alpine to host incus[1]?
>
> With ZFS?
>
> It sounds appealing to have a slim server running the container 
> infrastructure itself, doesn't it?
>
> /Marcus
>
> [1]: https://linuxcontainers.org/incus/
Marcus Rohrmoser <work@mro.name>
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Thanks, I'll give that a go!

/Marcus
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