ZFS on Linux for RHEL/OEL Installation

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I'm trying Oracle Linux (OLE) 6.1 (Red Hat RHEL 6.1 compatible clone).
Actually I'm not familiar neither with RHEL nor with OLE.
I want to try ZFS on linux for RHEL as provided in this guide .

sudo yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

I added OL repositories and successfully installed "Development Tools".

Next in guide is

./configure
make rpm

But I do not know where should I run it.

So questions are:

Where should I run ./configure ?

Where should I run make rpm ?

By ZFS on linux guide

Thanks.

Best Answer

You would need to download the release from the ZFS on Linux website and uncompress the tar.gz file (tar -zxvf filename.tgz) in a directory. Changing into the directory, you should then be able to run the rest of the configuration.

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