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From version 8.1
edited by Drunk Monkey
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40 40  C. Why You Should Use ECC RAM
41 41  D. The True Cost Of Deduplication
42 42  )))
43 +----
43 43  )))
44 44  
45 45  **UPDATE (May 06, 2012)**: I apologize for mentioning it supports encryption. Pool version 28 is the latest source that the Free Software community has. Encryption was not added until pool version 30. So, encryption is not supported natively with the ZFS on Linux project. However, you can use LUKS containers underneath, or you can use Ecryptfs for the entire filesystem, which would still give you all the checksum, scrubbing and data integrity benefits of ZFS. Until Oracle gets their act together, and releases the current sources of ZFS, crypto is not implemented.
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50 50  
51 51  **UPDATE (May 05, 2013)**: I've updated the installation instructions. The old instructions included downloading the source and installing from there. At the time, that was all that was available. Since then, the ZFS on Linux project has created a proper Debian repository that you can use to install ZFS. Here is how you would do that:
52 52  
53 -{{{$ su -
54 +{{code language="bash session"}}
55 +$ su -
54 54  # wget http://archive.zfsonlinux.org/debian/pool/main/z/zfsonlinux/zfsonlinux_2%7Ewheezy_all.deb
55 55  # dpkg -i zfsonlinux_2~wheezy_all.deb
56 56  # apt-get update
57 -# apt-get install debian-zfs}}}
59 +# apt-get install debian-zfs
60 +{{/code}}
58 58  
59 59  And that's it!
60 60  
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64 64  
65 65  --**A word of note:** the manpages get installed to /share/man/. I found this troubling. You can modify your $MANPATH variable to include /share/man/man8/, or by creating symlinks, which is the approach I took:--
66 66  
67 -{{{# cd /usr/share/man/man8/
70 +--{{{# cd /usr/share/man/man8/
68 68  # ln -s /share/man/man8/zdb.8 zdb.8
69 69  # ln -s /share/man/man8/zfs.8 zfs.8
70 -# ln -s /share/man/man8/zpool.8 zpool.8}}}
73 +# ln -s /share/man/man8/zpool.8 zpool.8
74 +}}}---
71 71  
72 72  Now, make your zpool, and start playing:
73 73  
74 -{{{$ sudo zpool create test raidz sdd sde sdf sdg sdh sdi}}}
78 +{{code language="bash session"}}
79 +$ sudo zpool create test raidz sdd sde sdf sdg sdh sdi
80 +{{/code}}
75 75  
76 76  It is stable enough to run a ZFS root filesystem on a GNU/Linux installation for your workstation as something to play around with. It is copy-on-write, supports compression, deduplication, file atomicity, off-disk caching, --encryption,-- and much more. At this point, unfortunately, I'm convinced that ZFS as a Linux kernel module will become "stable" long before Btrfs will be stable in the mainline kernel. Either way, it doesn't matter to me. Both are Free Software, and both provide the long needed features we've needed with today's storage needs. Competition is healthy, and I love having choice. Right now, that choice might just be ZFS.
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