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Open source distributions of OpenZFS are available for the following open source platforms.
(For commercial products, see companies and organizations.)
Darwin
At the core of Mac OS X Mountain Lion, which is certified to The Open Group UNIX® 03 standard, are Apple open source Darwin technologies.
ZFS-OSX
MacZFS |
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a full general purpose operating system. There are also several specialized distributions.
Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
- wheezy stable release:
- able to dual-boot 9.0 (default) or 8.3 kernels of FreeBSD
- zpool version 28 (deduplication, raidz3, removable log devices)
- still lacks support for ashift=, and important development tools like DTrace
- installer supports creation of zpools, installing to them, and booting directly from them with GRUB2
- testing release will be updated with new FreeBSD kernel releases, gaining many OpenZFS enhancements, including support for lz4 compression
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 the foundation for various distributions – comparable to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions.
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.