Distributions
The following open-source operating system distributions use Open ZFS (listed alphabetically):
illumos-based
OmniOS
- general-purpose server OS
- download page; source code
- commercial support available from OmniTI
OpenIndiana
- general-purpose server OS
- download page; source code
FreeBSD-based
FreeBSD
- general-purpose server OS
- download page; source code
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.