How to install ZFS for Linux

Here you go.

If you can "apt-get" or "yum", installing ZFS for Linux system is very easy.

 

1. GET LIBRARIES

First of all, you install libraries and SCons.
SCons is the software build tool under open source. SCons substitutes traditional "make".

USE apt-get:

# apt-get install libaio-dev libattr1-dev libacl1-dev libz-dev libz-dev libfuse-dev libfuse2 scons

USE yum:

# yum install -y fuse-devel libattr-devel libaio-devel libacl-devel zlib-devel fuse-devel scons

Oh, under my environment, Vine Linux, it is little bit different, like as:

# apt-get install fuse-devel libattr-devel libaio-devel libacl-devel zlib-devel fuse-devel scons

 

2. GET ZFS TARBALL

You download ZFS tar ball from ZFS homepage, wget is useful command to get it, like as:

# wget http://zfs-fuse.net/releases/0.6.0/zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2

After downloading, you uncompress the tar ball.

# bzip2 -d zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar.bz2
# tar xv zfs-fuse-0.6.0.tar

note:
As you know, a part of "0.6.0" in filename is version number, and above filename is current version at today. In future it may change, then you should change it to fit last (or you want to) version name.

3. COMPILE

Compile is very easy. Just two commands.

# cd zfs-fuse-0.6.0/src
# scons

That's all. If you success to compile, you get ZFS binaries.

Next, I will show you how to use ZFS binaries on Linux system.