From ca7c74c09212c32e565ace55337ce4a936d2cb4b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcin Skarbek Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 14:23:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added note about Fedora kernel updates and compatibility Co-authored-by: George Melikov --- docs/Getting Started/Fedora.rst | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/Getting Started/Fedora.rst b/docs/Getting Started/Fedora.rst index 7983876..67dacfd 100644 --- a/docs/Getting Started/Fedora.rst +++ b/docs/Getting Started/Fedora.rst @@ -12,6 +12,16 @@ released. Packages are available for the following configurations: | **Fedora Releases:** 30, 31, 32 | **Architectures:** x86_64 +.. note:: + Due to the release cycle of OpenZFS and Fedora adoption + of new kernels in current distribution release, it may happen that you + won't be able to build DKMS package on the most recent kernel update. + For example, Fedora 32 was released with kernel 5.6 but it is expected + that it will update to 5.7. OpenZFS was released with support for kernel + 5.6 but not for 5.7 and there will be no update right after 5.7 will hit + Fedora repository so you have to take into account that you will have to + pin your kernel version at some point. + To simplify installation a zfs-release package is provided which includes a zfs.repo configuration file and the ZFS on Linux public signing key. All official ZFS on Linux packages are signed using this