pkg-zfs

Native ZFS packaging for Debian and Ubuntu

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Native ZFS packaging for Debian and Ubuntu

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2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	4	1	3

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l1k·Dec 12, 2016

Thanks! The FileVault2 driver for Linux that you couldn't find is probably this one: https://github.com/libyal/libfvde/wiki It's experimental though. Better back up your data. I'd recommend to create a partition for ZFS and move data there that you want to use on both OSes, or outright install Linux on a zpool and mount that on macOS. This has worked remarkably well for me, even with lz4 compression and all the other great features. Layer ZFS on TrueCrypt if you need encryption, I wrote a howto a while ago but never had the time to update it: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/Dual-booting-OS-X...

In Linux on the Mac – state of the union

bsg75·Apr 21, 2016

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubu... https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/issues/188

In Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)

scottlinux·Mar 28, 2016Submission

ZFS on Linux Maintainer Abandons Debian

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helper·Feb 18, 2016

There are a couple of open bugs[1][2] related to grub and ZFS that make it a little tricky to get ZFS on your root volume, but it is doable: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubu.... I expect those issues to be resolved before 16.04 is released. Even with those fixes, the interactive installer doesn't support ZFS yet so you will still need to drop to a shell to actually setup your zpool and your partitions. [1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/1527727... [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-initramfs/+bug...

In ZFS is the FS for Containers in Ubuntu 16.04

jdboyd·Sep 18, 2013

Good questions. Booting from Linux ZFS is a bit more of an advanced project. Here is the guide for Ubuntu: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/pkg-zfs/wiki/HOWTO-install-Ubu... The ZFS packages are not fully pre-compiled. The ZFS packages use the dkms system where the kernel specific parts are recompiled when the kernel changes. This greatly reduces the maintenance work and is a system that has been in use by other out of tree kernel modules for a decade. Its not perfect, but it does largely reduce the distribution specific maintenance burden. Of course, when a new kernel version comes out, ZFS may have to make adjustments to support it and ZFS may lag a little bit. However, currently there are significant resources being dedicated to ZFS on Linux development and packaging and for the last 18 months they've kept up pretty well. It isn't p

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erfect. I wish that ZFS could be in the linux source tree. While I saw ZFS on linux being available, I wasn't ready to try it until last year. However, third party file systems do have a long tradition, such as AFS, vxfs, and numerous SAN file systems. ZFS on Linux seems to be doing very well.

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