System Requirements

Before installing Snapshot driver for Linux, ensure that your computer meets the following minimum software and hardware requirements, and prerequisites.

Supported Linux Distributions

This beta version of Snapshot Driver for Linux has been tested for the following Linux distributions:

Debian 9.2.1
Debian 9.8
OpenSUSE 15 GPT
Ubuntu 16
Ubuntu 17
Ubuntu 18
CentOS 6.10
CentOS 7.6
Fedora 29

These distributions have been tested for real use cases. However, the current beta release works with the most of the recent releases of Debian and RHEL based distributions.

Hardware Requirements

Only partitions with EXT4 file system are supported
At least 2 GB of RAM

Software Requirements

Linux kernel versions 3.x or 4.x
gcc compiler
make utility
libelf library for operations with ELF (executable and Linkable) files
Linux kernel development headers