ZFS lands in Debian contrib

Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by 4ad on Saturday May 14, 2016 @07:49AM (#11695682)

Unfortunately, it's a dkms, which means it gets compiled on the user machine on update.

From an operational perspective, this is insane, I need reliability. Of course in my organisation I could create a binary package and use that, but that's more work and then the new Debian package doesn't help me anyway.

When I need linux I just run ZFS on a better supported system and either virtualise Linux or expose an iSCSI target from ZFS for Linux.

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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by ashitlerferad on Sunday May 15, 2016 @07:37AM (#11700529)

It isn't legal to distribute the binary of zfs.ko

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

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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by krondor on Sunday May 15, 2016 @11:43AM (#11701313)

Canonical is doing so anyway and it seems they have a legal disagreement on the interpretation of the law with the Software Freedom Conservancy.

IANAL so I have no clue what is technically correct, but the fact is that Ubuntu is distributing zfs.ko in 16.04.

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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by Annatar on Sunday May 15, 2016 @05:57AM (#11700214)

> Of course in my organisation I could create a binary package and use that, but that's more work and then the new Debian package doesn't help me anyway.

Yes, and that is called system engineering. It is the job of a system engineering department (3rd level support) to deliver such components and stable operating system builds to the 2nd level support (operations, system administrators / database administrators).

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Re:ZFS lands in Debian contrib by krondor on Saturday May 14, 2016 @09:29AM (#11696007)

I believe on Ubuntu 16.04 ZFS is not using dkms. You'd want to check, because I'm not currently running it, but that's what I have been told.

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