when installing the zfsutils-linux package with apt, the installation errors out on failure to load the zfs kernel module. my kernel is linux-image-5.4.0-1013-raspi. typescript attached. workaround is to install zfs-dkms, which works as expected. once installed zfs performs as expected.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: zfsutils-linux 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-1013.13-raspi 5.4.44
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-1013-raspi aarch64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.3
Architecture: arm64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
Date: Sat Jul 11 23:46:20 2020
ImageMediaBuild: 20200423.1
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=C.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: zfs-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
modified.conffile..etc.sudoers.d.zfs: [deleted]
ZFS is now built-in as part of the rapi kernel package:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 5.4.0-1015-raspi #15-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 10 05:34:24 UTC 2020 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ lsmod | grep zfs
zfs 4005888 6
zunicode 331776 1 zfs
zavl 16384 1 zfs
icp 290816 1 zfs
zlua 200704 1 zfs
zcommon 106496 1 zfs
znvpair 110592 2 zfs,zcommon
spl 180224 5 zfs,icp,