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ZFS in Buster

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Dear Debian developers,

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 18:50 +0200
  Re: ZFS in Buster "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <lkml@metux.net> - 2019-05-29 13:10 +0200
  Re: ZFS in Buster Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 13:50 +0200
    Re: ZFS in Buster Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2019-05-29 16:00 +0200
      Re: ZFS in Buster Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2019-06-06 16:30 +0200
  Re: ZFS in Buster "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> - 2019-06-02 04:20 +0200
  Re: ZFS in Buster Dan <ganchya@gmail.com> - 2019-06-03 20:40 +0200
    Re: ZFS in Buster Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> - 2019-06-03 20:50 +0200

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