[Parted-maintainers] Backporting ZFS installer support to kreebsd

[Arno Töll]

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Hello everyone (please keep CCs:),

on behalf of the kreebsd porters I am trying to explore our
possibilities to improve ZFS (installer) support in a future Squeeze
point release.

To achieve that, we would need to backport at least the following bug
fixes and improvements. Note #635627 is already on its way to p-u (#637020):

Bug #  -- package -- title
635384 -- parted -- detection of ZFS volumes (ZVOL)
635398 -- partman-base -- humandev() support for ZFS volumes
637032 -- partman-target -- please allow /lib/modules mount points
635627 -- zfsutils -- zvol (ZFS volumes) should be available before
checkroot.sh
none -- partman-zfs -- Use a version > 8 for volume management

In agreement with kfreebsd's technology status [1] I think we can
consider that possible for packages which are kfreebsd specific only. As
you can see, it would also affect packages in Linux, in particular
parted and partman (thus d-i). However, we don't expect any side effects
on Linux, as it mostly touches paths used by kfreebsd systems only.

I hereby request comments from maintainers of affected packages and the
release team in particular.

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2011/06/msg00365.html

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
IRC: daemonkeeper on Freenode/OFTC
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