ZFS On Linux Repository
Hi list, we all know why ZFS is not included in RHEL/CentOS distributions: its CDDL license is/seems not compatible with GPL license.
I’m not a layer, and I do not have any strong opinion on the matter. However, as a sysadmin, I found ZFS to be extremely useful, especially considering BTRFS sad state. I would *really* love to have ZFS on Linux more intergrated with current CentOS.
From what I know (and I can go wrong, obviously), while the incompatible licenses prevent CentOS from shipping it, nothing should prevent to have a package for enabling *its repository*, better yet the kmod-enabled one. I was thiking to something as a ZFS SIG, where we can simply issue
“yum install zfs-sig” and have the correct kmod-enabled repository enabled.
I searched the list but I did not found anything regarding native ZFS. Any feedback on the matter is welcomed. Thanks.
6 thoughts on - ZFS On Linux Repository
Gionatan Danti wrote:
I think the simplest solution would be to add this (which I haven’t tried):
http://zfsonlinux.org/
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/RHEL-and-CentOS
to the Available Repositories for CentOS wiki page:
https://wiki.CentOS.org/fr/AdditionalResources/Repositories/
unless someone with some authority says that you can’t do this.
Il 25-06-2018 23:59 Yves Bellefeuille ha scritto:
Sure, this is the simplest path. Anyone has a good reason to be against it?
That said, I keep the idea that SIG would be highly preferable. Anyone is using ZFS on this list? Any ideas?
Thanks.
I’m using ZFS
Watch out, ZFS on Linux is not as good as on FreeBSD/Solaris. Just recently there was an issue with data loss. https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/7401
hth Lucian
But besides this issue it was in my experience rock solid.
Il 03-07-2018 15:39 Nux! ha scritto:
I know; I was on the very same github issue you linked. While the bug was very unfortunate, ZFS remain an exceptionally strong and reliable filesystem.
Let me ask again: anything is preventing to update the CentOS 3rd party repository page with ZoL repo?
Regards.