Some quick thots on doing this for my workstation:

1. I have six 2TB drives in raid 10 zfs pool, and they would not import to 15.10 because 15.10 ships with (or tries to) zfs 0.6.4.2
2. I decided on /boot, swap, /, mdadm partitions for OS install
3. needed to do 15.10 server cmdline install for mdadm raid setup
4. glad to not have attempted zfs-on-root for this distro
5. setup three extra partitions on my two 120GB SSDS, using them for
   1. tank zil
   2. tank l2arc
   3. home pool (second pool named homer :-)
6. Do not attempt to use PPA ubuntu/zfs-stable anymore, 15.10 will not accept it and it WILL mess with your zfsutils-linux recommended install.
7. Somehow it did end up installing zfs-fuse. Somehow trying to install spl-dkms and zfs-dkms and uninstalling zfsutils-linux apt-get chose it. Why?
8. I purged zfsutils, zfs/spl-dkms and did git clones on github/zfsonlinux/{spl,zfs}
9. All of this required starting off with build-essential, autotools, automake, auto… and libuuid and … stuff. Not difficult to chase down.
10. ./autoconfig.sh, ./configure && make -j10 && make install for spl and zfs
11. updated /etc/rc.local to modprobe spl zfs, zpool import tank; zpool import homer; zfs mount tank ; zfs mount homer

I am able to reboot and import without pool version warnings.

Why did I move off 14.04.x? I really want to do video editing for kid videos and all the video packages for 14.04 are way ancient.

Also:

1. get first server install working
2. install lubuntu-desktop
3. replace /etc/default/grub hidden -> false
4. default/grub -> replace “splash quiet” with “nofb”
5. once LXDE displays, then I do a “apt-get install mate-desktop-*” which seems to work just fine.
6. Why? lubuntu-desktop flawlessly sets up Xorg dependencies and gives me a desktop the first time without messing around wondering why mate-desktop didn’t.

Merry Xmas!