zfs-linux 0.8.3-1ubuntu12.12 source package in Ubuntu

 This library provides routines for packing and unpacking nv pairs for
 transporting data across process boundaries, transporting between
 kernel and userland, and possibly saving onto disk files.

 This library provides a variety of glue functions for ZFS on Linux:
  * libspl: The Solaris Porting Layer userland library, which provides APIs
    that make it possible to run Solaris user code in a Linux environment
    with relatively minimal modification.
  * libavl: The Adelson-Velskii Landis balanced binary tree manipulation
    library.
  * libefi: The Extensible Firmware Interface library for GUID disk
    partitioning.
  * libshare: NFS, SMB, and iSCSI service integration for ZFS.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 The OpenZFS library provides support for managing OpenZFS filesystems.

 Header files and static libraries for compiling software against
 libraries of OpenZFS filesystem.
 .
 This package includes the development files of libnvpair1, libuutil1,
 libzpool2 and libzfs2.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This zpool library provides support for managing zpools.

 libzfs_core is intended to be a stable interface for programmatic
 administration of ZFS. This wrapper provides one-to-one wrappers for
 libzfs_core API functions, but the signatures and types are more natural to
 Python.
 .
 nvlists are wrapped as dictionaries or lists depending on their usage.
 Some parameters have default values depending on typical use for
 increased convenience. Enumerations and bit flags become strings and lists
 of strings in Python. Errors are reported as exceptions rather than integer
 errno-style error codes. The wrapper takes care to provide one-to-many
 mapping of the error codes to the exceptions by interpreting a context
 in which the error code is produced.

 libzfs_core is intended to be a stable interface for programmatic
 administration of ZFS. This wrapper provides one-to-one wrappers for
 libzfs_core API functions, but the signatures and types are more natural to
 Python.
 .
 nvlists are wrapped as dictionaries or lists depending on their usage.
 Some parameters have default values depending on typical use for
 increased convenience. Enumerations and bit flags become strings and lists
 of strings in Python. Errors are reported as exceptions rather than integer
 errno-style error codes. The wrapper takes care to provide one-to-many
 mapping of the error codes to the exceptions by interpreting a context
 in which the error code is produced.
 .
 This package contains the documentation.

 The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
 many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
 run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
 modification. The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel
 module which provides a testing harness for the SPL module.
 .
 SPL can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos
 (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the
 overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives
 to Linux primitives.
 .
 This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.

 The Solaris Porting Layer (SPL) is a Linux kernel module which provides
 many of the Solaris kernel APIs. This shim layer makes it possible to
 run Solaris kernel code in the Linux kernel with relatively minimal
 modification. The Solaris Porting LAyer Tests (SPLAT) is a Linux kernel
 module which provides a testing harness for the SPL module.
 .
 SPL can be particularly useful when you want to track upstream Illumos
 (or any other OpenSolaris fork) development closely and don't want the
 overhead of maintaining a large patch which converts Solaris primitives
 to Linux primitives.
 .
 This is a transitional dummy package. It can safely be removed.
 SPL dkms files had been merged into zfs-dkms as of ZFS 0.8.X series.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This DKMS package includes the SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL components of
 OpenZFS.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This package adds OpenZFS to the system initramfs with a hook
 for the dracut infrastructure.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This package adds OpenZFS to the system initramfs with a hook
 for the initramfs-tools infrastructure.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This package provides the OpenZFS test infrastructure for destructively
 testing and validating a system using OpenZFS. It is entirely optional
 and should only be installed and used in test environments.

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This package provides the OpenZFS Event Daemon (zed).

 The Z file system is a pooled filesystem designed for maximum data
 integrity, supporting data snapshots, multiple copies, and data
 checksums.
 .
 This package provides the zfs and zpool commands to create and administer
 OpenZFS filesystems.