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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.

2 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Don't Bother with ZFS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If you want the benefits of ZFS use FreeBSD. It's a much nicer/cleaner OS than Debian or the other 3000 linux distros in use cases that require ZFS.

  2. Re:This is great news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

    You can expect a Hillary America to have copyright and patent laws changed to prevent further development of Linux.