Native ZFS in Fedora?

Sam Sharpe lists.redhat at samsharpe.net
Wed Jun 9 10:45:38 UTC 2010


On 8 June 2010 16:05, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> Have you heard that it is now possible to compile additional ZFS
> module? That way Fedora can get native ZFS support. Has anybody done
> this? If you have please post step by step instructions, much
> appreciated.
>
> Additional links:
> http://www.osnews.com/story/23416/Native_ZFS_Port_for_Linux
> http://wiki.github.com/behlendorf/zfs/

That first link says:

"The ZFS Posix Layer has not been implemented yet, therefore mounting
file systems is not yet possible;"

and:

"Currently in the ZFS for Linux port the only interface available from
user space is the zvol," the project's website reads, "The zvol allows
you to create a virtual block device dataset in a zfs storage pool.
While this may not immediately seem like a big deal it does open up
some interesting possibilities."

What exactly are you intending to do with a filesystem you can't mount?

-- 
Sam


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