ZFS for Linux 0.6.0

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Available downloads

Official release source package

For all platforms (946.6 kB)

Official release installable RPM package

For AMD 64-bit Linux with RPM

Official release source RPM package

For Linux with RPM

Release Notes

Several distributors have already incorporated this release of ZFS and its dependencies in their distributions:

• Fedora 12: Third-party RPMs at The missing RPMs repository

This release requires FUSE 2.8.0 or higher. For your convenience, there are several built packages available:

• Fedora 12: already included.
• Fedora 11: available at the above repository or directly here:
  • 32-bit
  • 64-bit

Known issues

This release has several known issues that have already been addressed in the next release, which is brewing.  But the important fact to remember is that this release is exceedingly safe to use.

Change log

Updates

• Updated ZFS code to pool version 16 (OpenGrok repository 2009-06-03)
• Upgraded to FUSE API version 26.

Enhancements

• Display more informative error messages when the FUSE module is not loaded or when zdb is used while zfs-fuse is not running.
• Included several command-line tunables.  These let you control caching and mount opts.
• We ship initscripts now.  These are configurable.
• Included distribution source maker.

Bug fixes

• Fixed regression where ZFS pools would disappear when rebooting or restarting zfs-fuse.
• Fixed compilation error when compiling under Fedora 9 (reported by Uwe Kubosch).
• Fixed minor possibility of write reordering happen during txg sync on SCSI devices.
• Fixed compilation problem under openSUSE 11.0 (Andy Yelland).
• Fixed umount datasets with spaces problem.
• Fixed disappearing datasets bug.
• Conformance with POSIX according to the NTFS-3G tests.
• Reduced memory consumption.