Distributions

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

illumos based

• illumos was forked from the OpenSolaris codebase in 2010
• The illumos codebase is the foundation used by various distributions
  • Similar to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distros
• browse ZFS source code in opengrok or github

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

FreeBSD

• general-purpose server OS
• download page; brows 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

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 is implemented in the kernel, but is maintained in an independent code repository (not the mainline Linux kernel).

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 ZFS on Linux packages to itself and its derivatives.

Apple OS X based

ZFS-OSX on GitHub

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