[GTALUG] Which Distro is Best for Running a ZFS-on-Linux Fileserver.

[David Collier-Brown]

On 2018-08-24 3:43 p.m., Christopher Browne via talk wrote:
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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018, 2:27 PM right.maple.nut via talk 
> <talk at gtalug.org <mailto:talk at gtalug.org>> wrote:
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>
>     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/
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> 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


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