I would appreciate suggestions for mounting a freeBSD zfs
drive on my up-to-date Debian 12 Bookworm machine, updated
to Debian 6.1.147-1 (2025-08-02). I want to edit a few
/etc files, then reboot it on the original machine.
Background:
I bought three pfSense/freeBSD firewall small computers
(PCengines APU2) which use 16GB mSATA card solid state drives.
Not full desktops, and exposed to raw internet; I would rather
tinker with the ZFS mSATA drives mounted on a Linux machine.
So far, I've been unable to mount them. Installing ZFS
on a Debian desktop machine spews a blinking legal warning:
Licenses for Open ZFS and Linux are incompatible.
("Dogs and cats sleeping together" in frantic Bill Murray voice)
I got past that, jumped through many more hoops, and have
something zfs-like installed:
root@khlmachine:~# zfs version
zfs-2.1.11-1+deb12u1
zfs-kmod-2.1.11-1+deb12u1
... but the Debian desktop still won't mount the drives.
Have any of you configured a Linux system to read/write
ZFS partitions? What worked for you?
Keith L.
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