On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 9:33 AM John Covici <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I never use a boot pool, I boot with ext4 and just do the root > on zfs. But, I was more interested in some external media, so I am > looking at that Linux Recovery file system to see if I can get that > working, or if there is a way to add zfs to the sysresc cd, I might do > that. >
Yeah, if I had to use a separate boot partition of any sort, I probably wouldn't make it zfs. There really isn't any benefit from using it for that. It might be FAT32 if I'm using EFI/etc, or it might be ext4. If I'm concerned about mirroring for something like that I could just rsync it once a day to zfs. We're talking about a tiny amount of data that doesn't change much, and if you use a week-old kernel after a restore it isn't the end of the world. What I probably should get around to is grokking EFI+linux. I'm not sure what the cleanest solution for that is these days - I've never actually set up EFI on linux, mostly because I'm not sure what the best practice is. I know at a high level that a few options exist. I want a final experience that is closer to grub2 than syslinux/lilo/etc, to use an analogy (not saying it should actually use grub). -- Rich
