zfs on mageia

[pleonard]

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

[doktor5000]

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"?

[pleonard]

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

[doktor5000]

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.

[pleonard]

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

[pleonard]

Hi ,

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

[pleonard]

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

[doktor5000]

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.

[pleonard]

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

[doktor5000]

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