> On 21. Feb 2022, at 19:18, Simon J. Gerraty <s...@juniper.net> wrote:
>
> Toomas Soome <tso...@me.com> wrote:
>>> Why should pxeboot have ZFS support?
>>
>> Well, the feature X can be helpful for recovery purposes. The root
>> cause is not the feature X itself, but the size limit. And the
>> unfortunate fact, the size limit is not fixed, but depends on the
>> system. Therefore there are two options - either to fix the size limit
>> or drop option X from default build — at least till the size limit is
>> fixed (or support for BIOS will be dropped).
>
> Or just build separate variants.
> As Bjoern said Lua is probably the straw breaking the cammel's back
> but I think it reasonable to assume that a system that has the resources
> to support ZFS does not have an ancient BIOS ?
>
> Thus a non-ZFS version could work for older systems
> while those without limitation can use the kitchen-sink version.
It is not even about “ancient” BIOS, the problem is, PXE stack does also need
resources and it is easier to consume low memory (just as loader does).
rgds,
toomas
