This chapter goes through the basic installation of ZFS modules in your Linux distribution of choice. Ubuntu allows for quick install and setup, so we are going to use it as an example.
System Packages
Before going any further, you need to install some packages from the standard distribution repositories.
Virtual Machine
Before buying the hardware and running tests on bare metal, you may want to install and test ZFS within a virtual machine . It is a good idea and I encourage you to do so. You may, in a very simple and efficient way, get used to administering ...
