> a matter of time before we have multi-socket RISC-V rc64imafdc machines

Self reply to clarify that really I mean "rv64imafdqc" here. FreeBSD
has been working well for some time now and that includes ZFS as part of
the default install. So surely a decent Linux distro can also exist for
RISC-V and IBM POWER9 and AARCH64 without the horror show of SystemD.

$ uname -apKU
FreeBSD rv64 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #4
main-n262103-c3c5e6c3e6c4-dirty: Thu Apr 13 13:45:26 EDT 2023
root@rv64:/usr/obj/usr/src/riscv.riscv64/sys/GENERIC riscv riscv64
1400086 1400086
$ freebsd-version -kru
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
14.0-CURRENT
$

--
Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
Four decades in production systems.