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OpenZFS Documentation

Stars: 171
Forks: 235
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 45
Avg merge: 2m
Merged PRs (30d): 1

Dominant language: Python
License: No license data
Last GitHub push: Aug 24, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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45 open issues indexed

Instructions for ZFS on root for Ubuntu 26.04 on Raspberry Pi 5 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#648 · Opened Sep 18, 2026
Improve ZFS-8000-8A to be more accurate and helpful Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#645 · Opened Aug 11, 2026
dRAID - "Rebuilding to a Distributed Spare" discrepency Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#636 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 21, 2026
Documentation Enhancement Request for dRAID Configuration and Recovery Groups Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#634 · Opened May 13, 2026
wrong ashift info and recommendations (from HDDs 4k physical-blocks introduction era) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#583 · Opened Nov 28, 2025
Brainstorming from OpenZFS summit 2025 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#574 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 30, 2025
Host signing pubkeys directly with docs, to simplify checking them out Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#568 · Opened Oct 15, 2025
Debiain Bookworm Root on ZFS Guide: suggestion for adding additional info to the disk formatting section Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#564 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2025
grub-install doesn't work with ZFS pools installed on partitions Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#557 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2025
RHEL-Based Distro: Update Online Documentation to Warn Users OpenZFS is Unfit for Production Use on RHEL Systems Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 52/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#550 · 5 reactions · Opened May 28, 2025
Rebuild manpages when they change on master Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#545 · 2 comments · Opened May 14, 2025
Debiain Bookworm Root on ZFS Guide: automate setup script call 4 review Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#535 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 26, 2025
Broken NixOS setup as a result of now removed mirrored boot setup docs Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#531 · 6 comments · Opened Oct 8, 2024
/var/log not mounted when journalctl looks for it Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 38/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#530 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Needed `zpool labelclear -f` on all disks to clear a botched earlier attempt Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#529 · Opened Oct 3, 2024
Debian Bookworm Root on ZFS - caveat unmerged system dirs Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#514 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2024
Instructions for ZFS on root for Raspberry Pi OS (Debian 12) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#510 · Opened Jun 7, 2024
Feature Request: Section on proper procedure for replacing a failing|failed disk on this setup. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#501 · Opened Mar 27, 2024
Boot pool import service script causes zfs-import-cache.service to fail Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#496 · Opened Feb 28, 2024
Docs do not mention SecureBoot blocks zfs kernel module Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#493 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 9, 2024
Mention potential issues with using 'rpool' and 'bpool' naming convention in a multi install system. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#487 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 29, 2024
Add native encryption option to root NixOS guide Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#481 · 2 comments · Opened Dec 15, 2023
dRAID comment error Open

openzfs/zfs repo

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#474 · Opened Nov 25, 2023
Debian upgrade instructions Open

good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#473 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 23, 2023
(feature request) Provide more troubleshooting knowledge about failure to boot Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#471 · Opened Nov 20, 2023
/boot/firmware no space left on device Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#446 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 14, 2023
Latest Fedora 38 openzfs root instructions result in Failed to mount API filesystems Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#439 · 6 comments · Opened May 27, 2023
keeping datasets out of snapshots Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#407 · Opened Mar 23, 2023
One way to export rpool before final reboot (over ssh) Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#405 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 22, 2023
could use more detail about NVMe overprovisioning Open

documentation good first issue

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#370 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 19, 2022
reconsider pool-level native encryption Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#354 · 11 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Oct 16, 2022
zFS with RAID1 Mirror and Native Encryption Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#290 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 11, 2022
Clarification of write throttling module parameter documentation Open

Type: Documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#291 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2022
Automated bash installer script, based on "Debian Bullseye Root on ZFS" document. Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#287 · 5 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 27, 2022
openSUSE Root on ZFS: UEFI + grub problems Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#258 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 31, 2022
Online manpages - links to sections of different manpages do not work Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 40/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#251 · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 9, 2022
Questions about Debian initrd documentation (continuation) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#237 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 14, 2021
Need to update zfs documentation for CEPH configuration Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#114 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 30, 2021
Link from zpool-features.5.html to feature matrix Open

openzfs/openzfs-docs#103 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 8, 2021
Refer to external commit tracking as "illumos" rather than "OpenZFS" Open

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#86 · Opened Nov 30, 2020
Check for new module params in new PRs of openzfs/zfs Open

enhancement openzfs/zfs repo

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#44 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 3, 2020
Add debug docs Open

documentation

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#41 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 29, 2020
Add rescue docs Open

documentation

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#40 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 29, 2020
Add documention for `--enable-builtin` option Open

documentation

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 55/100

openzfs/openzfs-docs#28 · Opened Jun 13, 2020
Add man pages Open

documentation

openzfs/openzfs-docs#2 · 1 assignee · Opened May 21, 2020

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