nmasse-itix/zfs-aarch64

Description

This repository provides ZFS and libvirt RPM packages compiled specifically for the aarch64 (ARM64) architecture on Fedora, CentOS Stream, and RHEL systems. The main goals are:

• ZFS Support on ARM64: Provides native ZFS filesystem support for aarch64 systems where official ZFS packages may not be available or up-to-date
• Libvirt with ZFS Storage: Patches libvirt to enable ZFS storage pool support on aarch64 architecture, allowing virtualization environments to leverage ZFS storage backends
• Multi-distribution Support: Builds packages for multiple Linux distributions (Fedora 41-43, CentOS Stream 9-10) to ensure broad compatibility
• Automated Building: Uses COPR (Cool Other Package Repo) infrastructure for automated building and distribution

The repository automatically downloads upstream source RPMs, applies necessary patches (especially the 20-enable-zfs.patch for libvirt), and builds optimized packages for ARM64 systems.

Installation Instructions

The packages are built and hosted on COPR. To use them on your aarch64 system:

1. Enable the COPR repository:

   # Enable the COPR repository
   sudo dnf copr enable nmasse-itix/zfs-aarch64
   
   # Optionally, limit the packages to only ZFS-related ones (DNF >= 5)
   sudo dnf config-manager setopt 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:nmasse-itix:zfs-aarch64.includepkgs=*zfs* libnvpair* libuutil* libzpool*'
   
   # Optionally, limit the packages to only ZFS-related ones (DNF < 5)
   sudo dnf config-manager --setopt 'copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:nmasse-itix:zfs-aarch64.includepkgs=*zfs* libnvpair* libuutil* libzpool*' --save
   
   # Verify the repository is enabled and packages are available
   sudo dnf --repo=copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:nmasse-itix:zfs-aarch64 search zfs
   
   

2. Install ZFS packages:

   # Install ZFS userspace utilities
   sudo dnf install zfs zfs-dkms
   
   # Install libvirt with ZFS support
   sudo dnf install libvirt libvirt-daemon-kvm libvirt-daemon-driver-storage-zfs
   
   

And then follow the Getting Started documentation.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
EPEL 10	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	EPEL 10 (7 downloads)
EPEL 9	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (0)*	EPEL 9 (4 downloads)
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0)*	Fedora 41 (4 downloads)
Fedora 42	aarch64 (0)*	Fedora 42 (6 downloads)
Fedora 43	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (0)*	Fedora 43 (4 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.