Dan wrote: > Hi, > > ZFS 0.8 has been released with lots of improvements, notably encryption. > > Sadly the Linux Kernel has introduced a commit in kernel 4.19 and 5.0 that > prevents ZFS from using SIMD. The result is that ZFS won't be usable in > Buster. See the following issue > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8793 > > NixOS reverted that particular commit: > https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NixOS-Linux-5.0-ZFS-FPU-Drop > > Debian is the "Universal Operating System" and gives the user the option to > choose. It provides "vim and emacs", "Gnome and KDE", "Linux, Hurd, > KfreeBSD, etc.". I think that Debian should also provide the option to use > ZFS with encryption. > > Would it be possible to provide an alternative patched linux kernel that > works with ZFS? > > The ZFS developers proposed the Linux developers to rewrite the whole ZFS > code and use GPL, but surprisingly the linux developers didn't accept. See > below: > https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/8314
At this point, you really want to put this in front of the debian-developers list, and perhaps especially debian-ker...@lists.debian.org -dsr-
