From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2016 20:28:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: Generated. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/96b33c0233a63f505fbfa2c6b03ef6f86423300d?ds=sidebyside Generated. --- diff --git a/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html b/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..fccf37542c --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/One_in_two_hundred_Debian_users_using_ZFS_on_Linux_.html @@ -0,0 +1,440 @@ + + + + + Petter Reinholdtsen: One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux? + + + + + + +
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One in two hundred Debian users using ZFS on Linux?
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7th April 2016
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Just for fun I had a look at the popcon number of ZFS related +packages in Debian, and was quite surprised with what I found. I use +ZFS myself at home, but did not really expect many others to do so. +But I might be wrong.

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According to +the popcon +results for spl-linux, there are 1019 Debian installations, or +0.53% of the population, with the package installed. As far as I know +the only use of the spl-linux package is as a support library for ZFS +on Linux, so I use it here as proxy for measuring the number of ZFS +installation on Linux in Debian. In the kFreeBSD variant of Debian +the ZFS feature is already available, and there +the popcon +results for zfsutils show 1625 Debian installations or 0.84% of +the population. So I guess I am not alone in using ZFS on Debian.

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But even though the Debian project leader Lucas Nussbaum +announced +in April 2015 that the legal obstacles blocking ZFS on Debian were +cleared, the package is still not in Debian. The package is again in +the NEW queue. Several uploads have been rejected so far because the +debian/copyright file was incomplete or wrong, but there is no reason +to give up. The current status can be seen on +the +team status page, and +the +source code is available on Alioth.

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As I want ZFS to be included in next version of Debian to make sure +my home server can function in the future using only official Debian +packages, and the current blocker is to get he debian/copyright file +accepted by the FTP masters in Debian, I decided a while back to try +to help out the team. This was the background for my blog post about +creating, +updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically, and I +used the techniques I explored there to try to find any errors in the +copyright file. It is not very easy to check every one of the around +2000 files in the source package, but I hope we this time got it +right. If you want to help out, check out the git source and try to +find missing entries in the debian/copyright file.

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