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Overview
Due to license incompatibility, ZFS is not available in Arch Linux official repo.
ZFS support is provided by third-party archzfs repo.
Installation
Note: this is for installing ZFS on an existing Arch Linux installation. To use ZFS as root file system, see below.
Install zfs-linux* or zfs-dkms depending on your needs. See the respective pages for details.
Live image
Kernel package shipped with latest live image might not be compatible with ZFS, user should check kernel version following instructions here.
Root on ZFS
ZFS can be used as root file system for Arch Linux. An installation guide is available.
Contribute
Fork and clone this repo.
Install the tools:
sudo pacman -S --needed python-pip make pip3 install -r docs/requirements.txt # Add ~/.local/bin to your $PATH, e.g. by adding this to ~/.bashrc: [ -d $HOME/.local/bin ] && export PATH=$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH
Make your changes.
Test:
cd docs make html sensible-browser _build/html/index.html
git commit --signoff
to a branch,git push
, and create a pull request. Mention @ne9z.