On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 09:19:58AM +0100, Tim Fletcher wrote: > Moved from Richard's blog to here.... > > A couple of people have requested removing the dependency on > zfs-fuse from the ubuntu packages that Richard released last week, > and there is some confusion about the state of ZFS in Ubuntu. > > There are 2 Linux compatible implementations of ZFS, zfs-fuse > (http://gitweb.zfs-fuse.net/) and ZFS on Linux > (http://zfsonlinux.org/). > > ZFS-fuse is in the official Ubuntu repos but is rather outdated and > almost all development has stopped. > > ZFS on Linux (aka ZoL) is an open source but license incompatible > kernel module that is under active development and released as > source packages for most major distos. There is a ppa for Ubuntu > here: https://launchpad.net/~zfs-native/+archive/stable > > ZoL is actively used in various NAS distros, as well as things like > proxmox. I am currently using it as a backup target combined with > rsync and snapshots. > > ZFS-fuse and ZoL packages can't be installed together and so > installing guestfish which depends on zfs-fuse causes removal of the > ZoL packages. Thanks for the explanation. I guess we'll drop zfs-fuse in that case. I have to do another build of those Ubuntu packages shortly because they are vulnerable to CVE-2013-2124. Note this means that it won't be possible to inspect ZFS-using guests from an Ubuntu host.

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 05:10:39PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Unfortunately while doing that I completely forgot about the > zfs-fuse dependency :-( So now I'm going to rebuild them *again* > to get rid of that! Hopefully the about-to-beuploaded *1.22.2-1ubuntu2* packages won't have zfs-fuse dependencies.