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I can confirm this builds properly on arm (my raspberry pi) and i686 (a pentium III). I know this isn't entirely recommended but the developers have been working on 32-bit stability lately and it is stable so far for me. If you could add arm and i686 to the 'arch' line that would make my life marginally easier. Thanks

Just a heads up, I am currently on vacation, so if there is some reason I cannot push ZFS updates you can get them here: https://github.com/demizer/archzfs-backups/tree/master/testing The last numerical digits of the package version are the kernel version the package is built against.

ZFS rc13 was just released. I will update the package when kernel 3.6.11 is released to core.

@chenxiaolong: Thanks, that worked like a charm. For anyone else who follows this advice, remember to `depmod -a` after building ZFS, else zfs and zpool won't find the newly installed modules. Take note that without any options to configure, man pages and some other things aren't installed. It should be enough to just copy the flags from the PKGBUILD to fix that.

I have updated the packages to pkgrel 8 fixing the initial ramdisk generation after installing the updated zfs package in cases of using zfs in the hooks array in mkinitcpio.conf.

!IMPORTANT! For users that are using ZFS as root, there is a problem with the current package when generating the ramdisk with mkinitcpio. The problem is that once the kernel is installed, the mkinitcpio is initiated before the ZFS packages have been installed. This produces errors because mkinitcpio cannot find the ZFS binaries needed by the install hook. To fix this, use: # depmod -a 3.6.10-1-ARCH # mkinitcpio -p linux

The packages and repository have been updated for kernel 3.6.10.

Indeed, ZFS does not build against Kernel 3.7. In order not to have these packages be flagged out of date for an extended period of time, I have created patches for ZFS and SPL including the fixes from the ZOL master branches and packaged them using pkgrel 8. http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/spl-utils-0.6.0_rc12-8.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/spl-0.6.0_rc12-8.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/zfs-utils-0.6.0_rc12-8.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/zfs-0.6.0_rc12-8.src.tar.gz The patch includes all the changes made up until the last release. ZOL is very weird in how they make releases, they are no rhyme or reason to them, they just happen and it seems anything that touches the master branch is stable. I have been running these updated packages for a couple days without incident. I also have the packages for 3.6.10 ready to go (pkgrel-7), I am just waiting for 3.6.10 to hit [core]. http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/spl-utils-0.6.0_rc12-7.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/spl-0.6.0_rc12-7.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/zfs-utils-0.6.0_rc12-7.src.tar.gz http://demizerone.com/archzfs/pkgsrc/aur/zfs-0.6.0_rc12-7.src.tar.gz I am thinking about creating a testing repository for these packages so I can push updates out for testing. In other news, I have created a branch that tracks the archiso so we can do emergency maintenance if need be. The server string for pacman.conf is as follows: [archzfs] Server = http://demizerone.com/$repo/archiso/$arch Of course, you will also need to add my key and locally sign it before using, but now we can use zfs in the archiso environment without compiling! I have installed ZFS on a root filesystem on my wife's laptop, there are changes coming to the packaging to improve the implementation. Most of all I am working on updating the archwiki documentation and that should be up in the next week or two.