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Hi everybody,

I am looking for a port of zfs on mageia.
I am currently work on the release 0.6.0-rc9 but I get compling errors, so if pther people are interrested we could do the job and publish the rpm.

After that this is a political view for mageia to distribit them or waiting for btrfs.


Sincerely

Pierre Léonard

Which zfs implementation are you using, and which errors do you get?

BTW: btrfs is already available, and what do you mean by that "political view"?

hi doktor5000,

I load the the release 0.6.0-rc9 from zfsonlinux.org and after the module linkage the make file do somr rpm file and tru to compile with libtool a simple file list.c in splxxxx/lib. The compilation is done with libtool and one parameter is not good : -c -o list.o list.c, the goodway is to do "-o lits.o -c list.c". Unfortunetly all the Makefile are rebuild for each pass in e temporation folder in /tmp, which name is always changing, so it's impossible to adapt the scripts and Makefile during the process.

Political view. I read a post in a Mageia forum or some thing like a charte, saying that mageia will work with btrfs and not zfs.

Our position here at INRA micalis is to have a linux distribution with zfs. Because we have a lot of data repository managed with sun servers. We choose to install the mageia distribution on some computing nodes and some data nodes. We (I) have a long experiment with the Mandriva distribution and I beleve into the Mageia project.

All these reasons to have a group of people to work on a zfs port.

Sincerely

Pierre Léonard

Well, you can do a package request: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_repor ... ge_request

But for such issues, they should directly be reported upstream to the zfsonlinux developers, so they can fix it properly in the code, and everybody will benefit.

Hi,

from doctor5000
BTW: btrfs is already available, and what do you mean by that "political view"?

with simple features. btrfs is a fake from Oracle.
Any body will belive that Oracle will pay devellopers for nothing.
Developping btrfs is a way for theim to stop all efforts on zfs which is in GPL.

That's the reason, to continue to port zfs on multiple distributions.

Pierre

Hi ,

doktor5000 wrote:Well, you can do a package request: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/How_to_repor ... ge_request

But for such issues, they should directly be reported upstream to the zfsonlinux developers, so they can fix it properly in the code, and everybody will benefit.

You'r wright, I have posted o zfsonlinux.org

I hope to get asap a release that will work and suggest to propose the rpm in the free part of Mageia.

Pierre

Hi,

Things are going well. The compilation of the two package spl ans zfs and the installation on a mageia are ok. I will test asap.
For the package I find a workaroud of the librairies bug makefile. The fact is that the distribution use libtool 2.2.6b and mageia have the 2.4.2 release. the parameters are not compatible. so I have the rpm for the spl .

For the zfs, rpm are not ready, there is a link error. I will see that later, after a complete test of the installation.

what I propose is that people who are interrested could get my patched tar ball. But for a distribution maybe it is better to wait for the official release on zfsonlinux.org

Sincerely

Pierre

FWIW, you may be interested in http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a ... 2012&num=1 if you haven't already seen that, that is.

Hi doctor5000,
Yes, I saw alot of port and message concerning zfs and ubuntu. But I work at INRA, in the new project MGPS, before I9 was at Micalis department. all the people are the same and have the same feeling : No ubuntu. There Fedora Sus redhat. And I introduce mandriva 2011. Now with the fork I introduce Mageia. First on an HP with two lame biproc and 196Go and with 8 GPU. Then I will install the mageia on a del C6220 with four lame bi proc intel, memory is a secret, 9TO for disc ans 10Gb Ethernet.
After Iwill install a Dell R... 48 cores and 768Go for mémory. All with Mageia 2.

After having a stable status and good running if the Mageia staff is interrested yhe where invinted to se the installation..


Thank's for all.

Pierre Léonard

Please keep us posted about the status, sounds quite interesting.