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README.md

ZFS RPM packages for aarch64 architecture for Fedora, CentOS Stream & RHEL

Purpose

This repository provides ZFS and libvirt RPM packages compiled specifically for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture on Fedora, CentOS Stream, and RHEL systems. The main goals are:

  • ZFS Support on ARM64: Provides native ZFS filesystem support for aarch64 systems where official ZFS packages may not be available or up-to-date
  • Libvirt with ZFS Storage: Patches libvirt to enable ZFS storage pool support on aarch64 architecture, allowing virtualization environments to leverage ZFS storage backends
  • Multi-distribution Support: Builds packages for multiple Linux distributions (Fedora 41-43, CentOS Stream 9-10) to ensure broad compatibility
  • Automated Building: Uses COPR (Cool Other Package Repo) infrastructure for automated building and distribution

The repository automatically downloads upstream source RPMs, applies necessary patches (especially the 20-enable-zfs.patch for libvirt), and builds optimized packages for ARM64 systems.

Usage

Installing ZFS Packages

The packages are built and hosted on COPR. To use them on your aarch64 system:

  1. Enable the COPR repository:

    sudo dnf copr enable nmasse-itix/zfs-aarch64

  2. Install ZFS packages:

    # Install ZFS userspace utilities
sudo dnf install zfs zfs-dkms

# Install libvirt with ZFS support
sudo dnf install libvirt

And then follow the Getting Started documentation.

Supported Distributions

  • Fedora: 41, 42, 43
  • CentOS Stream: 9, 10
  • RHEL: 9, 10 (via EPEL repositories)

Using ZFS with Libvirt

After installing the patched libvirt package, you can create ZFS storage pools:

# Create a ZFS storage pool definition
virsh pool-define-as mypool zfs - - - - /path/to/zfs/dataset

# Start and enable the pool
virsh pool-start mypool
virsh pool-autostart mypool

Development

If you want to fork this repo and build it yourself, here are the instructions with copr-cli.

copr-cli create --chroot fedora-41-aarch64 --chroot fedora-42-aarch64 --chroot epel-9-aarch64 --chroot epel-10-aarch64 zfs-aarch64

And then send the build to COPR.

./build.sh

License

The source code of ZFS, Libvirt and the Fedora RPM spec files remain licensed under their original license. The patches and top-level scripts may be too trivial to receive a license. In case a license is required for them, they are under MIT License.