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Re: ZFS on kFreeBSD



Petr Salinger a écrit :
>> While the current status of Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is interesting, I was
>> quite disappointed there is no ZFS support in it (at least any related
>> tools).
>> Any plans to enable this support?
> 
> End of http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2009/08/msg00130.html:
> 
> If we still have more time I think we should probably have the following
> things working:
> - ZFS support. Kernel support should be there with the next kernel
>    upload, but there is still all the userland libs/tools to package.
> - Keyboard configuration with console-setup.
> 
>> Or, what would it take to do it? I know pretty well the packaging in
>> Debian, but not the specifics of GNU/kFreeBSD (ports, etc...).
> 
> In general, it should be possible to create package zfsutils
> similarly as is already ufsutils.
> 

ZFS on GNU/kFreeBSD works when using the userland tools from plain
FreeBSD. Unfortunately zfsutils is not that easy to package, given the
source code is located in various places in the SVN tree, especially the
OpenSolaris parts.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
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