Distributions

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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.