"Some time ago" I created some patches for the debian installer to provide ZoL support on Linux. Since ZoL wasn't in the Debian GNU/Linux at the time, the where (of course) rejected.
But now that we have a green light from the lawyers, I think it's time to get this accepted again. Because the lawyers apparently said that there is no allowance for binary modules (which, to me, was quite a surprise actually, but lets not dwell on that - it is what it is), we talked about this on #zfsonlinux a couple of days ago. The (best) suggestion was to use zfs-fuse for the initial pool and filesystem creation, and then build ZoL (using dkms) etc in /target. The … "downside" of this is that it starts out with a v23/4 pool, but at least zfs-fuse in Debian GNU/Linux supports automatic ashift detection. For the last two days, I've been working on a prototype of this, and it worked just fine. I'm currently running this through a lot of tests to see if there's any hidden faults or problems. Had to modify 'zfs-fuse' to create an udeb, but Asias He (maintainer of zfs-fuse) have taken a preliminary look at that patch, and he agrees with it and said he'd apply it "when I'm ready". * Patch for zfs-fuse https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/3d137afe9d92ca740c3488fdbbd884f3076c5196 * Patch for debian-installer https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/e2c23b24586d769803bd13d9b1548a4f5693cf31 * Patch for partman-zfs https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/77002ed5774e742e510bd430d2403a7d82e576b2 * Patch for base-installer https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/0a1ad6270a1afbaf1829834d507f5b5f17a6d313 * Patch for grub-installer https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/e5539414ac8508ad861941b5f2ca0b98af800d59 I'm going to need to clean these up a little (I had to do some hacks to some of them to be able to distribute it for ZoL), but the question is: Do I have to split up each patch into smaller chunks, or is it ok with one for each project? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
