Debian

Offical ZFS on Linux DKMS style packages are available from the Debian GNU/Linux repository for the following configurations. The packages previously hosted at archive.zfsonlinux.org will not be updated and are not recommended for new installations.

Debian Releases: Jessie, Stretch, and newer (testing, sid) Architectures: amd64

Table of contents

• Installation
• Jessie to Stretch update
• Debian GNU Linux initrd documentation
• Debian Stretch Root on ZFS
• Dual booting OS X and Debian Jessie with ZFS root, cross mounting and full disk encryption

Installation

For Debian Stretch, ZFS packages are included in the contrib repository. Newer ZFS packages are provided by backports.

Add the backports repository:

    # echo "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/stretch-backports.list

Update the list of packages:

    # apt update

Install kernel headers and other dependencies:

    # apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-headers-amd64 dkms build-essential libelf-dev

Install zfs packages:

    # apt-get install -t stretch-backports zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux

If you want to boot from ZFS, you'll need zfs-initramfs package too:

    # apt-get install -t stretch-backports zfs-initramfs

Jessie to Stretch update

From Debian Stretch packages are included in Debian official contrib repository. Steps to reinstall packages:

1. Remove old packages:

# apt remove debian-zfs libzfs2 zfs-dkms zfsonlinux zfsutils libzpool2 libzfs2linux libnvpair1linux libnvpair1 libuutil1 libuutil1linux  libzpool2linux zfs-zed zfsutils-linux spl-dkms

2. Remove ZFSonLinux repository.

3. Install new packages, as described above.