It seem that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS supports the ZFS filesystem. But how do I use it?
I'm sorry, I don't know very much about ZFS, but it sounds good. I want it.
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If you run the command sudo zfs get all it should list all the properties of you current zfs pools and file systems. One of those properties, if correctly set, should be mountpoint=.
Zfs will mount the pool automatically, unless you are using legacy mounts, mountpoint tells zfs where the pool should be mounted in your system by default. If not set you can do so with
sudo zfs set mountpoint=/foo_mount data
That will make zfs mount your data pool in to a designated foo_mount point of your choice.
After that is done and since root owns the mount point you can change the owner of the mount with
sudo chown -R user:user /foo_mount
That will make the user user and the group user own the mount point and everything inside it, adjust the command to assign correct user:group privileges to the mount point.
Had a similar problem upgrading from 12.04 to 16.04. Finally got it to work but do not remember exactly what I did (step 2 was not obvious).
- Remove the old
zfspackages including the PPA, see Upgrade to 16.04 LTS from ubuntu server 14.04 LTS with ubuntu-zfs - Remove:
spl-dkmsand (I think)spl - Reinstall
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First off, use ZFS only if you really want it. See the Use Cases to know if you really need ZFS.
ZFS is supported only in 64-bit Ubuntu 16.04 installs. To install it run:
To learn more, you can see the reference on Ubuntu or this excellent documentation.
A good introduction can also be found here