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
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 currently the foundation for various distributions – comparable to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions.
illumos
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.