Here is a quick guide to getting a plain ZFS partition working on a Linux machine using the “ZFS on Linux” project. I was playing around on a CentOS 7 virtual machine trying to set it up as a replication target for my home FreeNAS box as a backup. If you are unfamiliar with ZFS, it is a filesystem for a storage environment, having features such as data integrity protection and snapshots; I came across it as it is used in FreeNAS. Here is the procedure I used: