On 17/08/2021 17:52:17+0200, Manuel Wagesreither wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I would like to know if anyone has experiences with equipping Yocto created 
> images with ZFS support.
> 
> If I'm not mistaken, the main problems of using ZFS in linux are of legal 
> nature. ZFS can not go into the linux kernel source tree, as it conflicts 
> with the GPL. Hence, the linux version of ZFS called ZoL (ZFS-On-Linux) must 
> be compiled as kernel module and recompiled at every kernel bump. On normal 
> machines, that's a bit cumbersome, but for Yocto this shouldn't be a problem 
> at all.
> 
> So, given the large fanbase ZFS has, I'm wondering why there are no recipes 
> around?
> 

I'm guessing that ZFS is not really popular on embedded systems ;)

> I googled a bit, and these are the only meaningful results I found:
> * https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/yocto/message/29331
> * https://gist.github.com/cveilleux/54961ccc41071e8aee8c19b69fcba78f
> 
> Regards,
> Manuel

> 
> 
> 


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