Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD Installer Will Support ZFS

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Debian's GNU/kFreeBSD Installer Will Support ZFS

While Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has supported the ZFS file-system with its FreeBSD-8 kernel, support for installing the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD distribution to a root ZFS file-system will now be possible with the Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" release...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=ODg0Ng

[hdas]

I'll wait for kfs. </joke>

[MiUNX]

If they succeeed and it becomes a good product, I wonder what they will decide to do with Debian Linux and what will happen to all de derivates of Debian (e.g. Ubuntu). Will they also start using BSD...

[krogy]

If they succeeed and it becomes a good product, I wonder what they will decide to do with Debian Linux and what will happen to all de derivates of Debian (e.g. Ubuntu). Will they also start using BSD...

for a general use i don't think so. it is difficult to beat the vast amount of hardware drivers that Linux has.

on other hand, i would like to try this out for a home file server. ZFS looks very attractive for this purpose.