Zfs

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Installing ZFS

UbuntuCentOSFedora

Starting with the image Ubuntu-18.04-Bionic-x64-2018-09

Ensure your package list is up-to-date and also do upgrades of your installed packages. While it isn't strictly nessacary to upgrade your installed packages it is a good idea.

[name@server]$ sudo apt-get update 
[name@server]$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade -y

Next install ZFS

[name@server]$ sudo apt-get install zfsutils-linux

Starting with the image CentOS-7-x64-2018-09

[name@server]$ sudo yum install http://download.zfsonlinux.org/epel/zfs-release.el7_5.noarch.rpm
...
Total size: 2.9 k
Installed size: 2.9 k
Is this ok [y/d/N]: y
...

hmm... this is looking strangely more complicated, see for example [1]

Starting with the image Fedora-Cloud-Base-29-1.2

to be written!