ZFS for Linux 0.6.9

New stable version with pool version 23, nfs sharing and powerpc support, multi-threaded ioctl handler (among other things)

Available downloads

For Ubuntu Jaunty

For all platforms (1.3 MB)

For all platforms (1.3 MiB)

The testing branch has graduated into our brand-new release, which promises to be a lot more stable than the 0.6.n family has been to date.

There are fresh packages for Gentoo and Ubuntu. RHEL (in the Epel-5 repo) and Fedora 13 have recent beta versions

If you cannot find a suitable package, you can compile your own version, see the homepage or the FAQ.

Relative to 0.6.0 testing has (among others):

this includes full Dedup support. The major upstream annoyances have been patched by SUN; Still beware of the Dedup FAQ

to boldly split your infinitives and ... mirrors ! No more detach and force import, just 'zpool split pool newpool'

fix for 'dataset busy' on export
kstat interface
libumem merged from libumem upstream source
PowerPC support! (tested on Debian PPC)
Autoreplace (Hot Spares!) support (replaced Solaris'es SMF features with a configurable script)

you can configure a script in /etc/zfs/zfs_pool_alert to handle vdev failures. If your system has perl, you can use the contributed script

It doesn't really use the autoexpand property like in Solaris. "zpool online" can be used to trigger autoexpand. According to Emmanuel a simple mount should even do the trick. Beware of resizing physical volumes/partitions that back your pool's vdevs though, in case you might need to reattach devices of smaller size (in case of mirrors/raidz this won't work if the existing vdevs are larger).