From the article: "Why not Debian or CentOS? Cool, go that way if you prefer them. But personally I am in luuuuuurve with the Ubuntu ZFS PPA."
With Debian, you can use the PPA as-is. This requires adding that to your /etc/apt/sources.list and manually adding the signing key with apt-key.
Something else the author doesn't directly address is that ZFS on Linux is really only usable on 64-bit systems. Funny things may happen if you use the 32-bit version, such as OOPSing when doing simple things such as ls -a.
I've had nothing but great experiences with running this on my home NAS.
Note that the 32bit thing isn't completely a Linux issue. ZFS seems pretty much designed with 64bit in mind.
On the Freebsd side, there is whole section on tuning [0] for i386 users. Some of it might transpose to linux (at least the concepts and things to watch).
With Debian, you can use the PPA as-is. This requires adding that to your /etc/apt/sources.list and manually adding the signing key with apt-key.
Something else the author doesn't directly address is that ZFS on Linux is really only usable on 64-bit systems. Funny things may happen if you use the 32-bit version, such as OOPSing when doing simple things such as ls -a.
I've had nothing but great experiences with running this on my home NAS.