zfs-fuse

I have recently been looking at using some low-power hardware that has Debian installed (and does not support OpenSolaris).  Combined with Oracle's demantling of Sun, I decided to test zfs-fuse.  These instructions are in no way supposed to indicate the correct or easiest way -- simply the way I managed to get it installed and tested.

1. download the Debian Lenny installer
2. create a new VirtualBox machine
1. make sure to create some extra drives... so in addition to SCSI0/sda being set aside for a 20gig hard drive, I created SCSI1-SCSI5 (sdb-sdf) as 2gig drives labeled "ztest1" through "ztest5"
2. keep track of those addition sdX names, you will need them later
3. reboot when prompted; make sure to remove the installer CD
4. su - root
5. apt-get install sudo bzip2
6. visudo
1. uncomment the sudo group line at the bottom
7. nano /etc/group
1. add yourself to the sudo group
8. apt-get install build-essential
9. apt-get install libaio-dev libattr1-dev libacl1-dev libz-dev libfuse-dev libfuse2 scons libssl-dev
10. exit
1. to get back to your user
11. mkdir work
12. cd work
13. wget http://zfs-fuse.net/releases/0.6.9/zfs-fuse-0.6.9.tar.bz2
14. bunzip2 zfs-fuse-0.6.9.tar.bz2
15. tar xvf zfs-fuse-0.6.9.tar
16. rm zfs-fuse-0.6.9.tar
17. cd zfs-fuse-0.6.9/src
18. scons
19. sudo scons install
20. nano ~/.profile
1. PATH="$PATH:/sbin:/usr/local/sbin"
21. log out and back in
22. modprobe fuse
23. sudo nano /etc/fstab
1. add this line:
   
   

   none /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl none 0 0

24.  sudo mount -a -t fusectl
25.  sudo zfs-fuse &
26.  sudo zpool create rpool raidz2 /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd /dev/sde /dev/sdf
27. sudo zfs create rpool/data

On reboot, I had some issues (I need to write a proper boot script), but I did this to get it running again:

1. su - root
2. modprobe fuse
3. mount -a -t fusectl
4. zfs-fuse &
5. zpool status
6. zfs list
7. zfs mount rpool/data

References:
http://zfs-fuse.net/
http://drwetter.org/blog/zfs_under_linux.en.html