ZFS on Ubuntu

25Nov 2009

ZFS on Ubuntu

by Craig Mayhew on Wed 25th Nov 2009 under General/Techie
Installation on Ubuntu 9.04

Filip Brcic is kindly providing Ubuntu packages for zfs-fuse.

To install zfs-fuse add the Filip Brcic's launchpad repo to a source list.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list.d/zfs-fuse.list

Add...
At the time of writing, the karmic version of this doesn't work so keep the word jaunty in repositories and it should be ok.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/brcha/ubuntu jaunty main

Then update apt.

sudo apt-get update

Now install zfs-fuse.

sudo apt-get install zfs-fuse

CAVEATS:
if you get this message then you need to run the command as root:
connect: Permission denied
internal error: failed to initialize ZFS library

zfs get compressratio

Further Reading:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ZFS/ZPool
http://www.lildude.co.uk/zfs-cheatsheet/
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/zfs_dedup


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