On 2018-08-24 3:43 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:27 PM right.maple.nut via talk <talk@gtalug.org <mailto:talk@gtalug.org>> wrote:
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?
I think that if I were certain I wanted a ZFS machine on my network, I'd look into one of the Illumos variants, most likely OmniOS. https://omniosce.org/
That is a fork of Solaris, which is where ZFS is really native.
All the other implementations of ZFS are ports, and likely a bit less satisfactory.
That obviously isn't Linux. But it shouldn't be ridiculously unfamiliar.
I second Chris: most of the commands will be familiar, although sometimes the names will merely be reminiscent of one another: strace vs truss, for example. I used to be in the porting business, and Solaris <-> Linux was dead easy. --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | Always do right. This will gratify System Programmer and Author | some people and astonish the rest davecb@spamcop.net | -- Mark Twain