Bug 17245 - The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
Summary: The native Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New RPM package request (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: High enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: All Packagers
QA Contact:
URL: https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
Whiteboard:
Keywords: USABILITY
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2015-11-28 12:25 CET by Domini Montessori
Modified: 2020-12-13 23:37 CET (History)
8 users (show)

See Also:
Source RPM: spl-0.6.5-11_ge7b75d9.mga5.src.rpm spl-dkms-0.6.5-11_ge7b75d9.mga5.src.rpm zfs-0.6.5-38_g43518d9.mga5.src.rpm zfs-dkms-0.6.5-38_g43518d9.mga5.src.rpm
CVE:
Status comment:

Attachments
spl (1.42 KB, text/x-rpm-spec)
2015-11-28 12:26 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
spl-dkms (2.11 KB, text/x-rpm-spec)
2015-11-28 12:26 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
zfs (8.86 KB, text/x-rpm-spec)
2015-11-28 12:27 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
zfs-dkms (2.08 KB, text/x-rpm-spec)
2015-11-28 12:27 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
spl src (536.94 KB, application/gzip)
2015-11-28 12:27 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
source zfs (52 bytes, text/plain)
2015-11-28 12:34 CET, Domini Montessori 		Details
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Description Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:25:29 CET 
spl - Solaris Porting Layer 
zfs - Native ZFS for Linux!

ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.

ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.

Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:
Comment 1 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:26:16 CET 
Created attachment 7244 [details]
spl
Comment 2 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:26:43 CET 
Created attachment 7245 [details]
spl-dkms
Comment 3 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:27:05 CET 
Created attachment 7246 [details]
zfs
Comment 4 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:27:27 CET 
Created attachment 7247 [details]
zfs-dkms
Comment 5 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:27:57 CET 
Created attachment 7248 [details]
spl src
Comment 6 Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:34:02 CET 
Created attachment 7249 [details]
source zfs
Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:41:11 CET

CC: (none) => dominidomini

Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:41:25 CET

Target Milestone: --- => Mageia 5

Domini Montessori 2015-11-28 12:42:01 CET

Keywords: (none) => USABILITY

Samuel Verschelde 2015-12-07 12:34:15 CET

CC: (none) => tmb
Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs

Florian Hubold 2015-12-07 17:07:12 CET

CC: (none) => doktor5000

Comment 7 Marja Van Waes 2016-04-12 10:08:56 CEST 
I'm not good at understanding licenses and how they affect or exclude one another, at all. However, I see that 

* spl and spl-dkms have:
                               License:        GPLv2+

* while zfs and zfs-dkms have:
                               License:        CDDL

Is that a problem??

See:
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/zfs-and-linux
("Interpreting, enforcing and changing the GNU GPL, as applied to combining Linux and ZFS")

CC: (none) => marja11

Alejandro Vargas 2016-05-09 15:00:10 CEST

CC: (none) => alejandro.anv
Target Milestone: Mageia 5 => Mageia 6

Comment 8 Alejandro Vargas 2016-05-15 13:17:47 CEST 
Debian just decided to include zfs as contrib with a dkms packet.

https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/zfs-linux

http://blog.halon.org.uk/2016/01/on-zfs-in-debian/

And ubuntu says their legal team indicates it is legal to incluye zfs.
Helge Hielscher 2016-08-15 01:35:21 CEST

CC: (none) => hhielscher

Comment 9 Charles Edwards 2016-08-15 02:21:58 CEST 
If it is only provided as source..yes
Provided in binary form..NO

Please see and read
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/

CC: (none) => cae

Comment 10 Alejandro Vargas 2016-08-16 09:03:02 CEST 
Well... a dkms packet that contains the source and a builds the binary at installation may be a solution.
Samuel Verschelde 2016-10-10 18:20:48 CEST

Target Milestone: Mageia 6 => ---

Domini Montessori 2018-02-17 14:56:32 CET

Priority: Normal => High

Comment 11 Morgan Leijström 2018-11-19 16:59:02 CET 
DKMS sounds good to me :)

I would try it on my fileserver if possible.
If anybody knows good GUI tools for administering ZFS that would be nice to have too.

Updating URL as page have moved.

CC: (none) => fri
URL: http://zfsonlinux.org/generic-rpm.html => https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Custom-Packages

Comment 12 Aurelien Oudelet 2020-09-19 18:08:46 CEST 
Hi,
This is High priority bug for a good reason.

Making Mageia even better than ever is best direction.
In order to do right thing, this bug should be examined and fixed as soon as possible.

Packagers, please make the status to Assigned when you are working on this.
Feel free to reassign the bug if bad-triaged. Also, if bug is old, please close it.

On October 1st 2020, we will drop priority to normal.
Comment 13 Morgan Leijström 2020-12-13 23:37:45 CET 
The ZFS on Linux project has been renamed OpenZFS

From https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenZFS-2.0-Released :

Good: OpenZFS 2.0 Released With Unified FreeBSD/Linux Support, Many New Features

Problem: many Linux distributions and upstream kernel developers aren't backing it due to license incompatibilities with the upstream kernel 

But maybe someone who knows this stuff could author a Mageia wiki page instead about how to get, compile, install, use, administer basics?

URL: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Custom-Packages => https://openzfs.org/wiki/Main_Page
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