ZFS Filesystem for FUSE/Linux

Gentoo Installation

Phil Worral (philwozza) has contributed a Gentoo overlay for the zfs-fuse 0.4.0 alpha1 release, which Bardur Arantsson kindly updated to the beta1 release

You need to download zfs-fuse-0.4.0_beta1-overlay.tar.gz

(update 2007-04-01: minor bug fixed by Martin Vysny)

Here are the original installation instructions:

Installing ZFS-FUSE on Gentoo

09-01-2007 Phil Worrall <philuk86@hotmail.com>

These are some simple instructions for installing ZFS-FUSE on Gentoo.

1. Download a copy of zfs-fuse-latest-overlay.tgz
2. mkdir -p /usr/local/portage
3. tar -xvzf zfs-fuse-latest-overlay.tgz -C /usr/local/portage
4. Add PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" to /etc/make.conf
5. echo "sys-fs/zfs-fuse" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
6. echo "sys-fs/fuse" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
7. emerge -va zfs-fuse

PS. If you want to install additional documentation don't forget to compile with 
the "doc" use flag set. See the gentoo website for more information about use flags.

To run zfs-fuse simply run /usr/bin/zfs-fuse as root
To run the various zfs tests run /usr/sbin/ztest

If you want to know what has changed since the last ebuild please be sure to check out the
ZFS-FUSE Gentoo ebuild ChangeLog. It can be found in:

/usr/local/portage/sys-fs/zfs-fuse/ChangeLog


Thanks

Phil Worrall