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Re: native ZFS on linux



If you look on KQstor's site, they give the URL for the GIT repo.  You
can get it there, too.

Scott


On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Kevin Thomas <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had trouble registering with KQstor's site so I couldn't download the
> source code to build it, but I was able to get it from
> http://zfsonlinux.org.  They have great how-to documentation on it as well
> and they show you which versions of Linux it has been verified to work
> with.  I use Fedora 14 and it was on the list.  I tried the newer RC1 source
> code packages and I had problems compiling the source package for zfs.  I
> tried the 0.5.2 packages and they compiled and installed fine. Those are
> supposedly the ones that KQstor created.
>
> Kevin
>
> On 02/24/2011 04:10 PM, Thomas Boxley wrote:
>
> This is pretty cool. I was a large fan of ZFS when I used OpenSolaris,
> before I moved to Linux. It is really fast and it doesn't fragment much.
>
> Thanks,
> Thomas Boxley
> http://thomasboxley.me
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Casey Boone <caseyboone@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Whoa, good find
>>
>> On Feb 24, 2011 11:59 AM, "Kevin Thomas" <axel2078@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is anyone else excited about running native ZFS on Linux? Apparently a
>> > company called KQstor has managed to make a successful port to Linux that's
>> > native.....it's supported in the Linux kernel, so no need to rely on FUSE.
>> > Someone in a FreeNAS forum that I frequent said that he downloaded their
>> > source for it and installed it in Ubuntu and it's working great so far. I
>> > think this is pretty exciting! You can get more info about it here.
>> > http://www.kqstor.com/
>> >
>> > Kevin
>
>


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