Distributions

Platforms and distributions. In alphabetical order …

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

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.

OS X

One of two Apple operating systems that use the Darwin kernel. The other is iOS.

ZFS-OSX

• Port of ZFS on Linux
• for use with Mac OS X 10.6 – OS X 10.9
• beta, developer preview – please use only with test pools
• occasional disk images at http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/
• when ZFS-OSX (on GitHub) becomes stable it will be the preferred stable version of MacZFS.