I am interested in this question too. I currently am running on Debian 7.7 but I’m not sure I can upgrade to a more current version, which is frustrating because I want to install Java (to run a Minecraft server) and (when I tried, so while back) I couldn’t get it to install because I had such an old version of Debian. So I was thinking of FreeBSD, but OmniOS looks pretty interesting. I won’t be doing any upgrade for several months (because as far as I can see, I need to install a new ZFS system and copy it over. I can’t risk loosing this system). It would be good to have a backup, anyway. I could try this on a virtual system, but I don’t know long it would take to back-up over the network. ../Dave On Aug 24, 2018, 3:51 PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org>, wrote:
| From: right.maple.nut via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| Hello All, Like the Subject Line says, I'm setting up a ZFS File Server | for my Home Network. Given that I will have to go to the trouble of | setting up the Distro and Migrating the Linux Install to ZFS Root, I | don't want to have to do this too many times. So, which Distro are the | favourite for Running ZFS-on-Linux? Also, is there such a thing as a | Linux Distro that is smart enough to give you a choice if you are | willing to use non-GPL'ed code in the Installer, so that I can just | Install Directly on a ZFS Pool? Thank You in Advance for your Input. | Regards, Amos
Why not run a *BSD?
Or something Solaris-related? Open Indiana????
- They more naturally run ZFS.
- there is no clash-of-licenses drama.
- the code is probably more tested.
- there are even out of the box fileserver distros based on *BSD.
- TrueOS, FreeNAS?
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