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ZFS in Buster

From	Dan <ganchya@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	ZFS in Buster
Date	2019-05-28 16:50 +0200
Message-ID	<y2LAl-3Qb-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Hi,

ZFS 0.8 has been released with lots of improvements, notably encryption.

Sadly the Linux Kernel has introduced a commit in kernel 4.19 and 5.0 that
prevents ZFS from using SIMD. The result is that ZFS won't be usable in
Buster. See the following issue
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8793

NixOS reverted that particular commit:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NixOS-Linux-5.0-ZFS-FPU-Drop

Debian is the "Universal Operating System" and gives the user the option to
choose. It provides "vim and emacs", "Gnome and KDE",  "Linux, Hurd,
KfreeBSD, etc.". I think that Debian should also provide the option to use
ZFS with encryption.

Would it be possible to provide an alternative patched linux kernel that
works with ZFS?

The ZFS developers proposed the Linux developers to rewrite the whole ZFS
code and use GPL, but surprisingly the linux developers didn't accept. See
below:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8314

Best,
Daniel

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ZFS in Buster Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 16:50 +0200
  Re: ZFS in Buster Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-05-28 17:30 +0200
    Re: ZFS in Buster Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 18:40 +0200

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