OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.
The Windows port is considered 'Beta' quality, your ZFS data will be safe but you might come across system crashes if you discover a bug. Please file any bugs on GitHub.
Developers for Windows, please see Windows ReadMe.
- Documentation - for using and developing this repo
- ZoL Site - Linux release info & links
- Mailing lists
- OpenZFS site - for conference videos and info on other platforms (illumos, OSX, Windows, etc)
Full documentation for installing OpenZFS on your favorite operating system can be found at the Getting Started Page.
We have a separate document with contribution guidelines.
We have a Code of Conduct.
OpenZFS is released under a CDDL license.
For more details see the NOTICE, LICENSE and COPYRIGHT files; UCRL-CODE-235197
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METAfile contains the officially recognized supported Linux kernel versions. - Supported FreeBSD versions are any supported branches and releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.