Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
Package: wnpp Owner: Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez clo...@igalia.com Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org * Package name: zfs-linux Version : 0.6.0 Upstream Author : Brian Behlendorf behlendo...@llnl.gov * URL : http://zfsonlinux.org/ * License : CDDL Programming Lang: C Description : The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem. ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It provides a number of advanced features like snapshots, clones, live integrity checksums, deduplication, compression and much more. The port to the Linux kernel includes a functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL and ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL). . This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are upgraded. . This package also contains the user space utilities needed to manage ZFS. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 08:02:21PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are upgraded. . This package also contains the user space utilities needed to manage ZFS. Wow, this is actually very nice. I didn't know the implementation of ZFS has advanced that much. I would really love to see this in Debian anytime soon. Do you know how it compares to the version of zfs available for the FreeBSD kernels feature-wise? Cheers, Adrian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120901181854.gb24...@physik.fu-berlin.de
Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
Hi, On 01.09.2012 20:02, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are upgraded. Question remains whether the resulting binary packages are distributable by Debian. You'd basically need to ship source only binary packages which are built on the installing platform - including utilities, not only for the kernel driver. -- with kind regards, Arno Töll IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC GnuPG Key-ID: 0x9D80F36D signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
On 01/09/12 20:36, Arno Töll wrote: Hi, On 01.09.2012 20:02, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are upgraded. Question remains whether the resulting binary packages are distributable by Debian. You'd basically need to ship source only binary packages which are built on the installing platform - including utilities, not only for the kernel driver. The user space utilities are not linked against any GPL library so there isn't any license problem distributing them in binary form. The only external dependencies for the user-space utilities are: libselinux1, zlib1g, and of course libc6. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Bug#686447: ITP: zfs-linux -- The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
On 01/09/12 20:18, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 08:02:21PM +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote: This package contains the source code for the native implementation of ZFS for the Linux Kernel, which can be used with DKMS, so that local kernel modules are automatically built and installed every time the kernel packages are upgraded. . This package also contains the user space utilities needed to manage ZFS. Wow, this is actually very nice. I didn't know the implementation of ZFS has advanced that much. I would really love to see this in Debian anytime soon. Do you know how it compares to the version of zfs available for the FreeBSD kernels feature-wise? Cheers, Adrian Wikipedia has a nice table comparing the different ports of ZFS [1] According to it, both the FreeBSD port and this Native Linux port (LLNL) are based on zpool version 28, for which the relevant changelog is also detailed on Wikipedia [2]. For the Linux port, the ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) is available from version 0.6.0-rc1 and is expected to be completely stabilized for version 0.6.0 [3] Regards! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Comparisons [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Release_history [3] https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
