Native ZFS for Linux Implementation Now Supports Linux Kernel 4.5 and s390 Arch

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native-zfs-The developers behind the ZFS for Linux (ZoL) project were proud to announce yet another stable release of the native ZFS implementation for GNU/Linux operating systems.

ZFS (Z File System) is an advanced file system and volume manager, and the ZFS for Linux project provides a native Linux kernel port for it. The latest stable release, ZFS for Linux 0.6.5.6, appears to bring quite some interesting changes, such as support for Linux kernels 2.6.32 until 4.5, as well as the s390 and s390x hardware architectures. According to the release notes published on the project’s GitHub page, the packaging has been updated, and it no longer contains artificial architecture restrictions,…