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Builing ZFS on Raspberry Pi 3 running Rasbpian
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Introduction

This is a tutorial for building and installing the latest release version (0.7.3 as of writing) of "ZFS on Linux" on a Raspberry Pi 3 running Raspbian Stretch. Specifically, we'll be building the dkms version of ZoL, which saves you the hassle of re-compiling the kernel modules after every kernel update. Even though ZoL added support for building dkms packages for debian in version 0.7.3, the build process on a Raspberry Pi 3 is not quite straight-forward. Hopefully, these instructions will make it easier.

Steps

  1. Install the build dependencies.
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential autoconf libtool
sudo apt-get install gawk alien fakeroot gdebi
sudo apt-get install zlib1g-dev uuid-dev libattr1-dev libblkid-dev
sudo apt-get install libselinux-dev libudev-dev parted lsscsi wget ksh
sudo apt-get install libdevmapper*

You'll also need the kernel headers. Running apt-get upgrade will take care of both installation and upgradation.

sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers
  1. Download the source.

Download the latest release tarballs for zfs and spl from this page and extract them.

$ wget https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/download/zfs-0.7.3/spl-0.7.3.tar.gz && tar -xzf spl-0.7.3.tar.gz
$ wget https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/download/zfs-0.7.3/zfs-0.7.3.tar.gz && tar -xzf zfs-0.7.3.tar.gz
  1. Compile and install spl.
$ cd spl-0.7.3/
$ autoreconf --install --force
$ ./configure

You need to make a small edit to the Makefile generated by configure before you proceed.

$ sed -E 's/(^RPMBUILD = rpmbuild.*)/\1 --target=armhf/' -i Makefile
$ make pkg-utils deb-dkms
$ for deb in *.deb; do sudo dpkg -i "$deb"; done

The final step will take some time as dkms builds spl modules for each kernel version installed in your system.

  1. Compile and install zfs.

The build process for zfs is the same as spl, albeit with an extra option --with-config=srpm in ./configure

$ cd ../zfs-0.7.3/
$ autoreconf --install --force
$ ./configure --with-config=srpm
$ sed -E 's/(^RPMBUILD = rpmbuild.*)/\1 --target=armhf/' -i Makefile
$ make pkg-utils deb-dkms
$ for deb in *.deb; do sudo dpkg -i "$deb"; done

The zfs source is much bigger than spl's and hence the build time will also be much longer.

  1. Reboot and Enjoy. :)

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