I decided to try ZFS-FUSE is my ongoing attempt to employ filesystem snapshots in my servers. ZFS-FUSE is in beta but I thought I would give it a try and see what happened. The install was not too difficult other than having to install a bunch of library dependencies along the way. These steps may work on other versions of Ubuntu, Debian, or other Debian derived distros but they have only been testing on Ubuntu 8.04.

Sure there are a lot of updates and other niceness but today I got excited about some new packages that haven’t been present in past releases. I’ve included them with others that I’ve mentioned in the past. So here are packages that are new in Ubuntu 8.10 but that I plan to use immediately.