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title: 'Debian on ZFS: It’s alive… It’s alive, it’s moving, it’s alive, it’s alive, IT’S ALIVE!'
date: 2016-05-22T19:48:48+00:00
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[<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-637" src="http://wp.realraum.at/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/zfs_alive-241x300.jpg" alt="zfs_alive" width="241" height="300" />](http://wp.realraum.at/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/zfs_alive.jpg)Last night, r³ saw, as a world première, the first boot of the first computer running pure Debian with ZFS-on-Linux.
  
There definitely were some before, using third-party packages (including my other laptop), by this is an important step for native ZFS support in Debian.

I will probably be involved, in the coming weeks, in squashing ZFS bugs and making sure that Debian Stretch users get a smooth ZFS experience.
  
Don’t hesitate to drop by and ask questions if you are curious about ZFS, or borrow the ZFS books I added to the library  ;-)

The whole install is described <a href="http://wp.realraum.at/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/root-on-zfs.txt" target="_blank">here</a> and on a <a title="[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Root-on-ZFS on Stretch" href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-zfsonlinux-devel/2016-May/000658.html" target="_blank">post to the pkg-zfsonlinux-devel</a> mailing-list.