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OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2022-04-28 · latest 2026-07-08

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  1. I guess you can try Windows next - https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
    comment by bpye · 2026-07-08 · in How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
  2. …in Windows also exists[1]. [0] https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/03/25/zfs-compatibility/ [1] https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
    comment by evanjrowley · 2025-09-25 · in RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS
  3. There is occasional talk of moving the Windows implementation of OpenZFS ( https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/releases ) into an officially supported tier, though that will probably come after the MacOS version (…
    comment by MauritsVB · 2025-01-14 · in ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
  4. What do you mean by a ZFS compatibility layer? There is a Windows port: https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs Note that it is a beta.
    comment by ryao · 2025-01-14 · in ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
  5. …Windows may have problems: "Win OpenZFS driver and WinBtrfs driver dont play well with each other" https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/issues/364
    comment by Ciantic · 2024-04-07 · in WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
  6. …I keep track of bcachefs which got merged in Linux 6.7. But it won't be cross-platform. [1] https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs [2] https://bcachefs.org
    comment by Fnoord · 2024-04-07 · in WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
  7. …IsPowerProtected is just very unsafe. I have since put some time into testing and sometimes fixing https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs , it is not ready for use yet, but it is making great progress.
    comment by ago · 2023-10-15 · in OpenZFS 2.2: Block Cloning, Linux Containers, BLAKE3
  8. …drive, because I would love to be able to snapshot and rollback) would actually be possible. [0] https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs
    comment by EvanAnderson · 2023-04-21 · in Windows on Btrfs
  9. …expected Windows could integrate with zfs like that. Speaking of, I always forget this exists too: https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/openzfs/
    comment by 4oo4 · 2022-04-28 · in Interactive, file-level Time Machine-like tool for ZFS