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(For a beta, both ilovezfs and dtm (Daniel) like the sound of "developer preview". Consider changing the description at GitHub from "alpha" to "beta".)
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** Last release: 2012/9
** Last release: 2012/9


=== ZFS-OSX (MacZFS development) ===
=== [https://github.com/zfs-osx ZFS-OSX] on GitHub ===


* [https://github.com/zfs-osx ZFS-OSX] [http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/] Development port of ZFSonLinux, early beta release, open source. Will eventually become MacZFS.
* port of ZFSonLinux
** Pool version '''5000''' (feature-flags), dataset version 5.
* for use with Mac OS X 10.6 – OS X 10.9
** 10.6-10.9
* beta, developer preview – please only use on test pools
** Last release: active development, weekly (please only use on test pools)
* when ZFS-OSX becomes stable it will become [http://maczfs.org/ MacZFS]
* pool version 5000 (feature-flags)
* filesystem version 5
* occasional disk images at http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/

Revision as of 07:10, 9 September 2013

The following open-source operating system distributions use Open ZFS (listed alphabetically):

illumos-based

OmniOS

OpenIndiana

FreeBSD-based

FreeBSD

FreeNAS

  • NAS appliance software, based on FreeBSD
  • commercial support available for sister product TrueNAS from ixSystems

incomplete list, please help!

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

  • Debian variant with ~90% 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)

Linux-based

ZFS on Linux

  • ZFS on Linux provides self-building packages for Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS/SL, Ubuntu and build instructions for several other distributions

Gentoo

  • Gentoo provides first-party ZFSOnLinux packages to itself and its derivatives.

Apple OS-X based

MacZFS (stable)

  • MacZFS Original fork of Apple work, open source.
    • Pool version 8, dataset version 2.
    • 10.5 - 10.9
    • Latest release: 2013/04/02

ZEVO

  • ZEVO Commercial version. Originally tenscomplement.com ZFS.
    • Pool version 28, dataset version 5. (lacking zvolume support).
    • 10.6.8 - 10.8 (panics on 10.9 Maverick)
    • Last release: 2012/9

ZFS-OSX on GitHub

  • port of ZFSonLinux
  • for use with Mac OS X 10.6 – OS X 10.9
  • beta, developer preview – please only use on test pools
  • when ZFS-OSX becomes stable it will become MacZFS
  • pool version 5000 (feature-flags)
  • filesystem version 5
  • occasional disk images at http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/