Oh , believe me , I ' ve been using ZFS for years . I just waited until Ubuntu 16 . 04 to come with it baked in to have some sort of LTS solution because I don ' t like updating all the time on my main machine . But if you count Freenas , a secondary SSD formated in my work laptop , Now my gaming ASUS ROG , Proxmox root on ZFS then I am full on ZFS on most everything now . What do you mean by not baking the modules into the kernel ? I ' ve actually seen others say that they have had trouble too on Antergos but I always use straight Arch so I ' m not sure what exactly is causing the problems . I guess one of the benefits you get from sending it all up yourself from scratch as you know exactly where everything goes and exactly how everything set up which means it ' s easy well not easy , but easier to fix problems when they occur . You read my mind here and this is my plan going forward on that other laptop . I made a custom archiso with your instructions so I shall give that a go and see how it turns out . It ' s a great live iso I can use from now on too as I plan on using it at work for other ZFS cloning techniques As a side note , I am using Sanoid with hourly snapshots for most of the basic root and home datasets . It makes for a great way to rollback from that Live ISO . I do use that ZFS repo now , btw . Antergos has it ' s own zfslinux and spllinux but they seem to break too easily when kernels update . It was a headache trying to fix and so using your method with this repo made it so much simpler .