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Creating virtual machines that have their rootfs on ZFS on hosts that have their rootfs on ZFS causes SPA namespace collisions when the standard name rpool is used. The solution is either to give each guest pool a name unique to the host, which is not always desireable, or boot a VM environment containing an ISO image to install it, which is cumbersome. 26b42f3f9d03f85cc7966dc2fe4dfe9216601b0e introduced `zpool import -t ...` to simplify situations where a host must access a guest's pool when there is a SPA namespace conflict. We build upon that to introduce `zpool import -t tname ...`. That allows us to create a pool whose in-core name is tname, but whose on-disk name is the normal name specified. This simplifies the creation of machine images that use a rootfs on ZFS. That benefits not only real world deployments, but also ZFSOnLinux development by decreasing the time needed to perform rootfs on ZFS experiments. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Issue #2417
Native ZFS for Linux!
ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.
ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.
Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org