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Brian Behlendorf
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When partitioning a device a name may be specified for each partition. Internally zfs doesn't use this partition name for anything so it has always just been set to "zfs". However this isn't optimal because udev will create symlinks using this name in /dev/disk/by-partlabel/. If the name isn't unique then all the links cannot be created. Therefore a random 64-bit value has been added to the partition label, i.e "zfs-1234567890abcdef". Additional information could be encoded here but since partitions may be reused that might result in confusion and it was decided against. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Tony Hutter <hutter2@llnl.gov> Signed-off-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com> Closes #4517
Native ZFS for Linux!
ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.
ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.
Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org