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authorMarcin Szychowski <szycha@gmail.com>2017-12-30 09:45:00 -0600
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2018-01-06 06:56:01 +0700
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system/zfs-on-linux: Updated for version 0.7.5.
Signed-off-by: Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org>
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ZFS is a modern filesystem originally developed for SOLARIS.
It provides many functionalities such as snapshots, data compression,
-data recovery and many more.
+data recovery, filesystem (snapshot) sending/reveiving, and more.
For more information about ZFS on linux, visit http://zfsonlinux.org
-You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this.
-This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it
-for every new kernel you choose to run.
+NOTE: You'll need the kernel source code to be able to compile this.
+This package is kernel dependent, so you'll need to recompile it for
+every new kernel you choose to run.
-If you don't have a /usr/src/linux symlink pointing to your real
-kernel directory (the script looks for it there by default), specify
-your kernel source destination by
-
- LINUXPATH=<path to your kernel source> ./zfs-on-linux.SlackBuild
+If you're building this for a kernel that isn't currently running,
+you'll need to pass what that kernel's 'uname -r' output will be
+to the KERN variable when running the build script, e.g. KERN=4.14.9
NOTE: you should run this on x86_64 systems.