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Does it really gain steam? Last time I checked the CDDL license incompatibility with GPL made it impossible to ship ZFS with Linux, and as such, distros have se

Does it really gain steam? Last time I checked the CDDL license incompatibility with GPL made it impossible to ship ZFS with Linux, and as such, distros have separate packages not maintained by the core team (I'm thinking of Arch right now). For the record I would be very glad if I could seamlessy use ZFS, but from my perspective it looks like a lot of work that can break in unexpected places.

danieldk 8y ago
NixOS has ZFS. I don't have long-term experience (switched to NixOS only two months ago or so), but the installation is pretty simple: (1) boot he installer CD, (2) add a line to your configuration to enable ZFS support, (3) switch to the new configuration. And then you are ready to install on ZFS root. Encrypted root also works. I used these instructions: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS Ironically, I felt less of a need to use ZFS on NixOS. I don't have a large pool and snapshotting the system is not really necessary, since in NixOS you can always roll back to a non-GCed previous version on your system. But I use filesystem compression and might use snapshots on /home.
- JosephEJones 8y ago
  ZFS is also fully supported in Ubuntu 16: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS
user5994461 8y ago
ZFS is owned by Oracle now. It's more or less suicidal to embed it into any Linux distribution.
- smittywerben 8y ago
  This made me laugh. Maybe I'm missing something; I don't understand the downvotes.
- mschout 8y ago
  LOL. I assume you're trolling. The official ZFS implementation has been Illumos for years now.
  - user5994461 8y ago
    There is no trolling whatsoever. ZFS was originally made by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle almost 10 years. ZFS is owned by Oracle and is a legal minefield.
    - JosephEJones 8y ago
      One can still dream: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-ZFS-2017-Possibility https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Z...

danieldk 8y ago

NixOS has ZFS. I don't have long-term experience (switched to NixOS only two months ago or so), but the installation is pretty simple: (1) boot he installer CD, (2) add a line to your configuration to enable ZFS support, (3) switch to the new configuration. And then you are ready to install on ZFS root. Encrypted root also works. I used these instructions: https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS https://nixos.wiki/wiki/NixOS_on_ZFS Ironically, I felt less of a need to use ZFS on NixOS. I don't have a large pool and snapshotting the system is not really necessary, since in NixOS you can always roll back to a non-GCed previous version on your system. But I use filesystem compression and might use snapshots on /home.

JosephEJones 8y ago
ZFS is also fully supported in Ubuntu 16: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Reference/ZFS

user5994461 8y ago

ZFS is owned by Oracle now. It's more or less suicidal to embed it into any Linux distribution.

smittywerben 8y ago
This made me laugh. Maybe I'm missing something; I don't understand the downvotes.
mschout 8y ago
LOL. I assume you're trolling. The official ZFS implementation has been Illumos for years now.
- user5994461 8y ago
  There is no trolling whatsoever. ZFS was originally made by Sun and Sun was acquired by Oracle almost 10 years. ZFS is owned by Oracle and is a legal minefield.
  - JosephEJones 8y ago
    One can still dream: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-ZFS-2017-Possibility https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-Z...