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ZFS For Linux Finally Lands In Debian GNU/Linux Repos (softpedia.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the hard-work-pays-off dept.

prisoninmate quotes a report from Softpedia: It took the Debian developers many years to finally be able to ship a working version of ZFS for Linux on Debian GNU/Linux. For those not in the known, ZFS on Linux is the official OpenZFS implementation for Linux, which promises to offer native ZFS filesystem support for any Linux kernel-based operating system, currently supporting Arch Linux, Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, openSUSE, and now Debian. And it looks like their ZFS for Linux implementation borrows a lot of patches from Ubuntu, at least according to the changelog for zfs-linux 0.6.5.6-2, the version that is now available in the unstable channel for Debian users to install and test.

3 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I'll probably hold out a while longer. by ArchieBunker · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll use it with FreeBSD.

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    Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
  2. Re:Love ZFS still hoping for BTRFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Uhm, you know those things are mostly caches? And the seconds it's needed by some program it drops it? Unless you're talking about something like the deduplication support then memory usage is not something you should get to hung up on. I have lots of servers running ZFS, some on as little as 512 MB of RAM and they are fine.

  3. Re:GPL ? GNU/Linux ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Who cares? FreeBSD is under a BSD license, which means you are really free to do what YOU want, not what some lunatic's idea of freedom is.