Welcome to the home of the ZFS-FUSE project – a port of the ZFS file system from Sun, the most advanced file system in the world.
Current release: ZFS for Linux 0.7.0
ZFS is the most advanced file system ever invented. This project makes it possible to create, mount, use and manage ZFS file systems under Linux, bringing the uncontested reliability and large feature set of ZFS to the Linux world.
Test-drive it now, come talk to us, and keep yourself updated with the latest news of our project!
ZFS has many features for all kinds of users – from the simple end-user to the biggest enterprise systems:
Provable integrity – it checksums all data (and meta-data), which makes it possible to detect hardware errors (hard disk corruption, flaky IDE cables..). Read how ZFS helped to detect a faulty power supply after only two hours of usage, which was previously silently corrupting data for almost a year!
Atomic updates – means that the on-disk state is consistent at all times, there’s no need to perform a lengthy filesystem check after forced reboots/power failures.
Instantaneous snapshots and clones – it makes it possible to have hourly, daily and weekly backups efficiently, as well as experiment with new system configurations without any risks.
Built-in (optional) compression
High scalability
Pooled storage model – creating filesystems is as easy as creating a new directory. You can efficiently have thousands of filesystems, each with it’s own quotas and reservations, and different properties (compression algorithm, checksum algorithm, etc..).
Built-in stripes (RAID-0), mirrors (RAID-1) and RAID-Z (it’s like software RAID-5, but more efficient due to ZFS’s copy-on-write transactional model).
Among others (variable sector sizes, adaptive endianness, …)
We encourage you to try ZFS on your computer. Here are several options for you to install ZFS and get it running quickly.
Several distribution managers include installable packages of ZFS-FUSE in their distributions.
scons
in the directory where the uncompressed files reside.To check out and compile the code from the official repository, first install Git, then follow these instructions:
# this is the official repository link git clone http://git.zfs-fuse.net/official # go into the source directory cd official/src # compile scons debug=2 # there is also an installation target that you can use to install the compiled programs
The community of ZFS-FUSE developers is highly active, and at any point several developers have their own public repositories you can try — instead of the official one — which are generally more up-to-date than the official one. Here are the links to the respective Git repositories:
On debian you will need the kernel nfs server to use the recently added support for sharenfs:
apt-get install nfs-kernel-server
Every once in a while, we merge the product of this work in the official repository, and when we get a release that we all consider good enough, this gets released as a stable release for distribution packaging.
Of course, we need your help!If you want to discuss ZFS or ask questions, join us in the mailing list at Google Groups.If you want to report bugs, use our bug tracker database to figure out whether a bug has already been reported, and report it (with as much detail as possible) if it isn’t.If you want to add documentation or news to this site, please ask to get the appropriate permissions to do so.
[X] Internationalized
[X] Unit tests
[ ] End-user documentation
[ ] Internal documentation (documentation, interfaces, etc.)
[X] Existed and maintained for at least 6 months
[X] Installs and uninstalls cleanly
[X] Code structure follows best practice