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This allows one to create a ZFS pool out of a directory tree. It's intended to be used to build VM images so that users can take advantage of the features of ZFS as a root filesystem. The goals of the implementation are to: 1. provide reproducible images 2. not require any special privileges to create the image 3. be reasonably fast The implementation makes use of some ZFS code from the loader, specifically a small nvlist implementation, fletcher4 and SHA implementations for checksums, and zfsimpl.h. There is no dependency on OpenZFS for now, so this will hopefully be easy to maintain.

Note: this is a work in progress, there are some minor code issues still left to address This allows one to create a ZFS pool out of a directory tree. It's intended to be used to build VM images so that users can take advantage of the features of ZFS as a root filesystem. The goals of the implementation are to: 1. provide reproducible images 2. not require any special privileges to create the image 3. be reasonably fast The implementation makes use of some ZFS code from the loader, specifically a small nvlist implementation, fletcher4 and SHA implementations for checksums, and zfsimpl.h. There is no dependency on OpenZFS for now, so this will hopefully be easy to maintain.

Note: this is a work in progress, there are some minor code issues still left to address This allows one to create a ZFS pool out of a directory tree. It's intended to be used to build VM images so that users can take advantage of the features of ZFS as a root filesystem. The goals of the implementation are to: 1. provide reproducible images 2. not require any special privileges to create the image 3. be reasonably fast The implementation makes use of some ZFS code from the loader, specifically a small nvlist implementation, fletcher4 and SHA implementations for checksums, and zfsimpl.h. There is no dependency on OpenZFS for now, so this will hopefully be easy to maintain.