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
Ubuntu ZFS