Am 21.04.17 um 20:06 schrieb C. R. Oldham:
For Ubuntu, it is an effort to get ZFS on the root partition.  See
these wiki entries:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu

I have several machines installed with these instructions on 16.04,
16.10, and 17.04.  They do work, but it's a pain to get it installed.

Note that ZoL does have a couple of limitations that can make it
challenging to use it as the backing store for KVM.  We have an
OpenNebula private cloud and some of qemu's caching options will cause
the VMs not to start, claiming the FS underneath doesn't expose the
right primitives.  I left the OS on ZFS on those machines and
converted the partitions where the VMs keep their disks to XFS.
That's interesting, Proxmox, a Debian based distribution, can use ZFS and run KVM on it.

Regards,
Andreas

--cro



On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 11:58 AM, Andrew Gabriel
<illu...@cucumber.demon.co.uk> wrote:
That would be any Illumos-based distro, FreeBSD (and FreeNAS), Ubuntu, and
maybe Gentoo.

I looked on the Oracle Linux web pages and blog, and there's no mention of
ZFS anywhere.
The Oracle Linux folks were very anti ZFS because they developed BTRFS and
saw ZFS as a competitor, although I think the BTRFS development team is now
mainly at Facebook.

On 21/04/2017 19:12, David Johnson wrote:
I might be using the wrong terminology, but by "native" I meant without
doing any extra
work. Some of the operating systems in your link are rumored to not work
out
of the box. An Oracle tech support rep. is the one who told me about the
native support for ZFS in Oracle Linux.

On 04/21/17 11:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
On 21/04/2017 18:24, David Johnson wrote:
Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on
Openindiana
vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I
want to
have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to get updated
security patches.

I'm not aware that Oracle Linux has native ZFS support at all.
However, there are more than you mentioned - see
http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions


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