This is very nice. Right now I'm having some trouble with zpool, but I'll try to boot from a ZFS root with GRUB as soon as I get the chance.
On 8/10/10, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote: > - Only ZFS up to (and including) version 14 is supported. I just checked, version 14 is in kernel 8.1. Is this the version that will be used for squeeze? > For newer > versions, we could make update-grub work with separate /boot with > minimal effort (poke me if you think this is needed), but complete > support for ZFS in root isn't currently being worked on. We need > help in this area. > > - Multi-device arrays are not supported. If they're RAID1 (mirror), > we work around this by selecting the first member and using that for > boot later. For array types where more than one disk is needed, GRUB > can't boot. Using a separate /boot can resolve this, however. > > - Gzip compression is not supported. It can probably be implemented > without much effort, given that GRUB already has gzip code (for a > different purpose, so the API isn't generic enough, but this can be > fixed). Note that the default in ZFS is no compression, and when > compression is enabled the default is LZJB, so this is not a big > problem. Also note that in case you enable gzip compression, a > separate /boot is not necessary to work around missing support in > GRUB. Simply create new ZFS filesystems for /boot and /lib/modules > inside the same zpool, and adjust compression settings accordingly. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
