Distributions
Open source distributions of OpenZFS are available for the following open source platforms.
(For commercial products, see companies.)
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
ZFS-OSX brings OpenZFS features to MacZFS. ZFS-OSX is a well-developed alpha that is ready for testing by people who are happy to use Terminal. It's designed for use with Mac OS X 10.6 – OS X 10.9 (Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion and Mavericks). To begin testing the most recent buildZeroBSD | OS X with ZFS offers a homebrew approach to obtaining the most recent code, building from that code and installing the built software. To test without buildingDisk images are ocasionally added to http://lundman.net/ftp/osx.zfs/ – aim for the most recent .dmg file. The image will contain built software – binaries, kernel extensions (KEXTs) and so on – that may be used with or without installation. These alpha images are not designed to include the most recent fixes or enhancements. If in doubt, please ask in IRC –irc://chat.freenode.net/#mac-zfs The simplest approachExpect a user-friendly package – for use with Apple's Installer.app – before the end of 2013. NotesAlpha software should not be used with data that is of significant value. Be thorough with your backups and please remember that ZFS alone is not a substitute for a good backup strategy. If you're limited to Leopard, or if you require the most stable MacZFS at this time, then instead of ZFS-OSX: consider relatively old version 74.3 of MacZFS. If you normally use MacZFS 74.3 or ZEVO: you must uninstall that software before testing ZFS-OSX. ZFS-OSX is port of ZFS on Linux®. |
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FreeBSD®
A full general purpose operating system with several specialized distributions. |
Debian® GNU/kFreeBSD
Debian® GNU/kFreeBSD is a general purpose GNU distribution for amd64/i386 that uses the FreeBSD kernel, which provides an OpenZFS implementation. An official Debian release, still using GNU libc and with ninety percent of the same software packages available. The wheezy stable release:
The testing release will be updated with new FreeBSD kernel releases, gaining many OpenZFS enhancements, including support for lz4 compression. |
FreeBSD
FreeBSD is a general purpose server operating system. |
FreeNAS®
FreeNAS is NAS appliance software. Commercial support is available for sister product TrueNAS from iXsystems. |
PC-BSD®
PC-BSD is a workstation/desktop operating system. Commercial support is available from iXsystems. |
illumos
The illumos codebase is the foundation for various distributions – comparable to the relationship between the Linux kernel and Linux distributions. The codebase originated as a fork from the last release of OpenSolaris. |
OmniOS
OmniOS is a general purpose server operating system. Commercial support is available from OmniTI. |
OpenIndiana
OpenIndiana (OI) is a general purpose server operating system. |
SmartOS™
SmartOS is a specialised type 1 hypervisor platform that is lean enough to run entirely in memory and powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. Provisioning is blindingly fast, thanks to zones and ZFS file system creation. SmartOS is a fundamental component of the Joyent® SmartDataCenter™ (SDC) product. |
Linux
Since its inception in the 1990s, the Linux operating system has become the most widely used software in the world.
Gentoo
Gentoo provides first-party ZFS on Linux packages to itself and its derivatives. Gentoo can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Derivatives include:
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ZFS on Linux
ZFS on Linux provides self-building packages for Debian, Fedora, RHEL/CentOS/SL, Ubuntu and build instructions for several other distributions.
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