OpenZFS 2.2.7 Released With Linux 6.12 Support, Many Fixes

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OpenZFS 2.2.7 Released With Linux 6.12 Support, Many Fixes

While we are awaiting the release of OpenZFS 2.3 that has been seeing release candidates since early October, OpenZFS 2.2.7 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.7-Released

[pWe00Iri3e7Z9lHOX2Qx]

6.11 came out on 9/15. Obviously there were early compat changes, but nearly 3 months before official support was a longer than average wait. I'm glad they released support through 6.12 as a 2.2.x update now instead of waiting longer for 2.3.0 to get out of RC status though.

[GruenSein]

6.11 came out on 9/15. Obviously there were early compat changes, but nearly 3 months before official support was a longer than average wait. I'm glad they released support through 6.12 as a 2.2.x update now instead of waiting longer for 2.3.0 to get out of RC status though.

This is exactly why I jumped ship. Having to exclude the kernel from updates for months was just annoying and this cycle is not the first one with a long delay. ZFS is nice but I'll stick to in-kernel FSs for now.

[cen1]

If only I could just spin up Debian and have ZFS out of the box with full installer support without having to muck around with out of kernel modules, having to turn off secure boot or do self-signing.. this is my last pain point with ZFS.

[energyman]

If only I could just spin up Debian and have ZFS out of the box with full installer support without having to muck around with out of kernel modules, having to turn off secure boot or do self-signing.. this is my last pain point with ZFS.

Because you always have to use the latest kernel? How are you even able to use any distro then?

[cen1]

Because you always have to use the latest kernel? How are you even able to use any distro then?

What do you mean with latest kernel? It's out of tree due to licensing and not signed by a distro so I can't secure boot. Which I completely understand but it is what it is.

[rene]

Hold my beer: https://t2sde.org/packages/openzfs

[xecycle]

pr 16385 feels interesting to me. Maybe I can now grant more memory to ARC?

[mbod]

This is exactly why I jumped ship. Having to exclude the kernel from updates for months was just annoying and this cycle is not the first one with a long delay. ZFS is nice but I'll stick to in-kernel FSs for now.

If you want to always run the latest kernel, ZFS is not for you. ZFS is more for stable environments with LTS kernels. Support for the latest stable kernels is nice, but LTS support is what counts.

[mbod]

[...] and not signed by a distro so I can't secure boot.

This is wrong. mokutil can sign the module which enables secure boot. See here instructions for debian:

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot