zfs-linux Roll: Users Guide: 
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The zfs-linux roll is supplies ZFS in source form ONLY. This is to comply with the licensing of ZFS that does not allow binary redistribution. This means that ZFS must be built on your frontend and the binaries added to your local cluster distribution.
This edition of the zfs-linux roll requires you to manually build and add the binary version of the roll.
 | The roll follows the process at http://zfsonlinux.org to build rpms. This has the effect of installing zfs kernel modules on your frontend. If you do not want this, then you should build on a development server appliance. |
If you choose the zfs-linux roll from a Rocks central server, you the source form of the roll will be installed for you. You must then go to the directory /opt/zfs/zfs-linux-roll-source and build the binary version of the roll. The files in that directory are contained in the called zfs-linux-roll-source-0.6.0-rc12.x86_64.rpm. This source can be installed on a Rocks Development Server. To make the binary version of the roll
# cd /opt/zfs/zfs-linux-roll-source # make binary-roll |
If your roll rebuild completed properly, you should see output similar to the following indicating the binary packages that have been built and are part of your local binary roll
roll-zfs-linux-kickstart-0.6.0-0: 9f3dc5cfb37c5025924222c0707b46b2 roll-zfs-linux-usersguide-0.6-0: 05c6edbdbcf46cc1395d9e296ab427b3 spl-0.6.0-rc12: fb8230830b0524e0e8fe2328b2894df0 spl-modules-0.6.0-rc12.6.32_220.13.1.el6: 79a11d04f63b899d8b5dd1b1c5996aae spl-modules-devel-0.6.0-rc12_2.6.32_220.13.1.el6: b42975737edb986f65635480f1ada7fe zfs-0.6.0-rc12: 9c10037dacc5595fbdcaf527181ac878 zfs-devel-0.6.0-rc12: 073ab7f991089b46a160867c9645ad68 zfs-dracut-0.6.0-rc8: b8e0ad3d479ab1f85ffbadfc9cf24062 zfs-modules-0.6.0-rc12.6.32_220.13.1.el6: 287f75756a6aa92f8688de4b80d6c183 zfs-modules-devel-0.6.0-rc12.6.32_220.13.1.el6: 5e17ca87a58e06f63bbeb6ed46b834d3 zfs-source-roll-0.6.0-1: 5c9de1926da9c9cd53293a7d5b60acd8 zfs-source-modules-0.6.0-1: 13995fa53ffd2f7d12e7cd9f77336a93 zfs-test-0.6.0-rc12: eff799a298b011bf49bf73359a4cc54e |
If you build on a development server, you must first copy the created iso image to the frontend. Once you have the iso image (in the directory where you made the binary roll on the frontend or copied to the frontend from a development server, you need to add the roll and rebuild the distribution.
# rocks add roll zfs-linux*iso # rocks enable roll zfs-linux # pushd /export/rocks/install # rocks create distro # popd |
At this point, any client nodes can be reinstalled with ZFS support. You can enable ZFS on your frontend by "running" the roll on the frontend
# rocks run roll zfs-linux | sh |
Any node or appliance can have ZFS support added to it. Whether or not ZFS is installed on a node is controlled by an attribute called zfs. The attribute should be set to true, if ZFS support is desired for the node.
Example: to enable ZFS on all NAS appliances, do the following
# rocks add appliance attr nas attr=zfs value=true |