> * Cyril Plisko ([email protected]) wrote: >> > >> > Grub will boot from a compressed root pool just fine. So long as it's >> > gzip compressed (which is the default when you turn compression on). >> > >> >> >From zfs(1M) >> >> compression=on | off | lzjb | gzip | gzip-N >> >> Controls the compression algorithm used for this >> dataset. The lzjb compression algorithm is optimized for >> performance while providing decent data compression. >> Setting compression to "on" uses the "lzjb" compression >> algorithm. The "gzip" compression algorithm uses the >> same compression as the gzip(1) command. You can specify >> the "gzip" level by using the value "gzip-N" where N is >> an integer from 1 (fastest) to 9 (best compression >> ratio). Currently, "gzip" is equivalent to "gzip-6" >> (which is also the default for gzip(1)). > > Duh. I had it reversed. The default is lzjb (which Grub can grok). > > You'd think I would get that striaght having run into problems when I > tried to use gzip compression in the past. > > Thanks for the cluestick reminder. >
Well gentlemen, I feel much better now. I was doing installs over and over and trying jumpstart and other silly things trying to see if I could hack my way around. It is good to know that I wasn't way off in left field. I wonder what happens in Sparc world also .. but that is another discussion given the issues of OpenBoot etc. -- Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
