

You will be asked to accept the OpenZFS license. The APT package manager will download all the required packages from the internet.
#Format zfs disk openzfs install#
Now, you can install the ZFS filesystem on Debian 11 with the following command: $ sudo apt install zfsutils-linux zfs-dkms zfs-zed Īll the required dependency libraries should be installed. To confirm the installation, press Y and then press. You can install all the libraries that the ZFS kernel module depends on with the following command: $ sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux-image-amd64 spl kmod You must install the libraries that the ZFS filesystem kernel module depends on before installing the ZFS filesystem on Debian 11. The official Debian contrib repository should be enabled. To enable the contrib package repository, open a Terminal and run the following command: $ sudo apt-add-repository contrib But you can easily enable it from the command-line. The contrib package repository is not enabled on Debian 11 by default. The ZFS filesystem packages are available in the official Debian 11 contrib package repository. The ZFS filesystem was designed to keep and access an insane amount of data.Įnabling Debian contrib Package Repository: You may never encounter such a big filesystem in real life. The ZFS supported filesystem size is 3×10(to the poer 24) TB. The ZFS filesystem is a 128-bit filesystem. The full form of ZFS is Zettabyte File System.
