[OpenIndiana-discuss] ZFS on Openindiana vs ZFS on oracle linux

David Johnson dave at loud-mouth.net
Fri Apr 21 18:12:10 UTC 2017


I might be using the wrong terminology, but by "native" I meant without 
doing any extra
work. Some of the operating systems in your link are rumored to not work out
of the box. An Oracle tech support rep. is the one who told me about the
native support for ZFS in Oracle Linux.

On 04/21/17 11:01, Andrew Gabriel wrote:
> On 21/04/2017 18:24, David Johnson wrote:
>> Does anyone have any editorial comments on how well ZFS is handled on 
>> Openindiana
>> vs. Oracle Linux? It looks like these may be my only two choices if I 
>> want to
>> have an OS that has native ZFS support, and allow me to get updated 
>> security patches. 
>
> I'm not aware that Oracle Linux has native ZFS support at all.
> However, there are more than you mentioned - see 
> http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Distributions
>




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