Distributions

Open source distributions of OpenZFS are available for the following open source platforms.

(For commercial products, see companies and organizations.)

= Darwin =

At the core of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, which is certified to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard, are Apple open source Darwin technologies.

ZFS-OSX

 * Port of ZFS on Linux
 * for use with Mac OS X 10.6 – OS X 10.9 (not yet tested with Darwin – might need slight compile tweaks)
 * beta, developer preview – please use only with test pools
 * occasional disk images at http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/
 * when ZFS-OSX becomes stable it will be the preferred stable version of MacZFS.

= FreeBSD =

FreeBSD is a full general purpose operating system. There are also several specialized distributions.

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

 * Debian variant with around ninety percent of the same software packages, based on GNU libc, but using the FreeBSD kernel which provides ZFS
 * installer supports creation of ZFS pools, installing to them, and booting directly from them with GRUB2
 * we'd like to know how we're doing, and what major features are missing (DTrace comes to mind).

FreeBSD

 * General purpose server OS
 * download
 * browse ZFS source code in github or websvn or OpenGrok

FreeNAS

 * NAS appliance software
 * commercial support available for sister product TrueNAS from ixSystems.

PC-BSD

 * Workstation/desktop OS
 * commercial support available from ixSystems.

= illumos =

The illumos codebase is the foundation for various distributions – comparable to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions.
 * Forked from the OpenSolaris codebase in 2010
 * browse ZFS source code in opengrok or github

OmniOS

 * General purpose server OS
 * download
 * source code
 * commercial support available from OmniTI.

OpenIndiana

 * General purpose server OS
 * download
 * source code

= Linux =

Gentoo

 * Gentoo provides first-party ZFS on Linux packages to itself and its derivatives.

ZFS on Linux

 * Implemented in the kernel
 * maintained in an independent code repository (not the mainline kernel)
 * provides self-building packages for Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS/SL, Ubuntu and build instructions for several other distributions.