I think the answer does not cover my question, as the ZFS driver is linked to the kernel, which evolves with point releases and/or HWE kernels on LTS versions.
To make it as practical as possible, let's assume ZFS 0.8 gets released in June. I think I now can conclude it will not get backported to the 4.15 kernel shipped with Bionic. Then the next question is: would it be included in 18.10? If that's the case, would it then come to the LTS through HWE or the point release as well? ** Changed in: zfs-linux (Ubuntu) Status: Fix Released => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to zfs-linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1752310 Title: What is the zfs support policy wrt. LTS releases? Status in zfs-linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: If we consider the zfs 0.x releases as being major (0.6, 0.7, 0.8), is the assumption correct that LTS releases will not receive a new major ZFS release ? To be as practical as possible: Bionic will be stuck at zfs 0.7.x, Xenial at zfs 0.6.x ? If my assumption is wrong, when would Xenial see zfs 0.7 ? Has a policy been defined ? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1752310/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp