With today’s announcement of Oracle Solaris Express 11 our choices for running a ZFS capable Operating System just got even more confusing. I wasn’t able to find a list of the build numbers these Operating Systems are based on all in one place, so I’m going to keep a chart of the choices here, and if readers will contribute in the comments I will keep the chart updated. The build number gives you a good idea of how recent the ZFS feature set is. If any of these become true forks with divergent code and feature sets we won’t be able to rely on a single build number to identify the features any longer.
Updated November 22, 2010 to include the KQ Infotech and Lawrence Livermore National Labs native ZFS on Linux:
| OS | build | comments |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Solaris Express 11 2010.11 | b151a | licensed for testing only, encrypted fs |
| OpenSolaris 2009.06 | b111b | |
| OpenSolaris (last dev) | b134 | |
| OpenIndiana | b147 | |
| Nexenta Core 3.0.1 | b134+ | Linux userland, CLI only |
| NexentaStor Community | b134+ | 12TB limit, web admin |
| NexentaStor Enterprise | b134 + | not free, web admin |
| FreeBSD 8.1 | pool 15 | no CIFS or iSCSI |
| Linux fuse 0.6.9 | pool 23 | low efficiency |
| KQ ZFS | b121? pool 26 | Native Linux port |
| LLNL ZFS | b147 pool 28 | Native Linux port |
| Belenix 0.8b1 | b111 | |
| Schillix 0.7.2 | b147 | |
| StormOS “hail” | based on Nexenta | |
| Jaris | Japanese | |
| Milax 0.5 | b128a | small size |
| Korona 4.5.0 | b134 | KDE |
| EON NAS | b130 | embedded NAS |
Please contribute info, links to distros, etc. and I will keep this page updated.
(Update: I have added this table to the ZFS Wikipedia article, where all future updates will go)