============================ ZFS KERNEL BUILD ============================ 1) Build the SPL (Solaris Porting Layer) module which is designed to provide many Solaris APIs in the Linux kernel which are needed by ZFS. To build the SPL: tar -xzf spl-x.y.z.tgz cd spl-x.y.z ./configure --with-linux= make make check 2) Build ZFS, this port is based on build 89 of ZFS from OpenSolaris. You will need to have both the kernel and SPL source available. To build ZFS for use as a Linux kernel module (default): tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tgz cd zfs-x.y.z ./configure --with-linux= \ --with-spl= make make check ========================= ZFS USER LIBRARY BUILD ========================= 1) Build ZFS, this port is based on build 89 of ZFS from OpenSolaris. To build ZFS as a userspace library: tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tgz cd zfs-x.y.z ./configure --zfsconfig=user make make check ============================ ZFS LUSTRE BUILD ============================ 1) Build the SPL (Solaris Porting Layer) module which is designed to provide many Solaris APIs in the Linux kernel which are needed by ZFS. To build the SPL: tar -xzf spl-x.y.z.tgz cd spl-x.y.z ./configure --with-linux= make make check 2) Build ZFS, this port is based on build 89 of ZFS from OpenSolaris. To build ZFS as a userspace library for use by a Lustre filesystem: tar -xzf zfs-x.y.z.tgz cd zfs-x.y.z ./configure --zfsconfig=lustre \ --with-linux= \ --with-spl= make make check 3) Provided is an in-kernel test application called kpios which can be used to simulate a Lustre IO load. It may be used as a stress test or as a performance to measure your configuration. To simplify testing there are scripts provided in the scripts/ directory. A single test can be run as follows: WARNING: You MUST update DEVICES in the create-zpool.sh script to reference the devices you wish to use. cd scripts ./load-zfs.sh # Load the ZFS/SPL module stack ./create-zpool.sh # Modify DEVICES to list your zpool devices ./zpios.sh # Modify for your particular kpios test ./unload-zfs.sh # Unload the ZFS/SPL module stack Enjoy, Brian Behlendorf