General

The native Linux kernel port of SUN's ZFS filesystem. To get started with ZFS on Linux simply download the latest release, then follow either the rpm or deb package instructions to build and install packages for your system. Alternately, there is a ppa available for Ubuntu users.


ZFS Core Features
Storage pools Massive Capacity Copy-on-write transactions
Clones Dynamic striping Variable block sizes
Snapshots Deduplication Online Repair
Lightweight FS creation Cache management Adaptive endianness

Releases
SPL Release ZFS Release Released Pool Version FS Version SPL Packages ZFS Packages PPA
spl-0.6.0-rc8 zfs-0.6.0-rc8 Mar 26 2012 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc7 zfs-0.6.0-rc7 Mar 16 2012 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc6 zfs-0.6.0-rc6 Oct 12 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc5 zfs-0.6.0-rc5 Jul 12 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc4 zfs-0.6.0-rc4 May 5 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc3 zfs-0.6.0-rc3 Apr 8 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc2 zfs-0.6.0-rc2 Mar 9 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl-0.6.0-rc1 zfs-0.6.0-rc1 Feb 18 2011 28 5 rpm deb rpm deb ppa
spl archive zfs archive

Documentation
ZPL ZVOL ZPIOS Lustre
ZFS example ZVOL example ZPIOS example Lustre source
Lustre packages
Lustre example

Community Resources
General SPL ZFS
ZFS on Linux Mailing Lists SPL Downloads ZFS on Linux Downloads
ZFS on Linux FAQ SPL Issue Tracker ZFS on Linux Issue Tracker
ZFS Documentation/Presentations SPL Source Repository ZFS on Linux Source Repository
ZFS on Linux Development Work



Native ZFS on Linux
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