ZFS installation on GNU/Linux Debian

ZFS is a file and volume system developed by Sun Microsystems for its Solaris operating system. The original meaning was 'Zettabyte File System', but it is now an acronym ===

What is ZFS?

ZFS it's a file system and volumes developed by Sun Microsystems for your operating system Solaris. The original meaning was 'Zettabyte File System', but now it is a recursive acronym.

The official announcement of ZFS came in September 2004. The source code for the final product was integrated into the main Solaris development branch on October 31, 2005, and was released on November 16, 2005 as part of the build 27 of OpenSolaris.

ZFS was designed and implemented by a Sun team led by Jeff Bonwick.

ZFS stands out for its large capacity, integration of the previously separate concepts of file system and volume manager in a single product, new structure on the disk, lightweight file systems and simple storage space management.

We add the repository

Bash

echo «deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib» >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
apt-get update

We install the kernel headers

Bash

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

We install the ZFS packages

Bash

apt-get install -t jessie-backports zfs-dkms

In future posts we will see how to manage ZFS volumes

All the best.

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