[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Fwd: Debian GNU/Linux 0.6.4 ZoL Packages

[Turbo Fredriksson]

FYI, for those that haven't seen the announcement on the ZoL list(s).

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>
> Subject: Debian GNU/Linux 0.6.4 ZoL Packages
> Date: April 10, 2015 3:12:25 AM GMT+02:00
> To: zfs-announce at list.zfsonlinux.org
> 
> With the release of 0.6.4, I have now created packages for
> Debian GNU/Linux Wheezy and Jessie.
> 
> They come from my dailies and include the following changes:
> 
> * Possibility to boot from snapshot
> It does this by getting the snapshot name from the command line
> 
> 	root=rpool/ROOT/rootfs at snapshot
> 
> and from that clones the filesystem into a new filesystem:
> 
> 	rpool/ROOT/rootfs_snapshot
> 
>  and uses that as the root filesystem.
> 
> * Support legacy mounts in /etc/fstab.
> After importing the pool, mounting all native filesystems,
> it will go through any 'zfs' filesystem in /etc/fstab and
> mount them. It is recommended to put the option
> 
> 	_netdev
> 
>  as in 
> 
> 	rpool/test1  /mnt/test1  zfs  defaults,_netdev  0 0
> 
>  so not to get errors in the /etc/init.d/mountall.sh init script
>  which don't understand ZFS entries and is run before the pool(s)
>  are imported.
> 
> * Support exceptions to pool imports.
> Do this by setting the variable ZFS_POOL_EXCEPTIONS in /etc/defaults/zfs
> (space separated list). Any pool found that is in this list will NOT be
> imported.
> 
> * Support mounting additional filesystems (such as /var and /usr etc)
> in the initrd using ZFS_INITRD_ADDITIONAL_DATASETS (space separated list)
> set in /etc/defaults/zfs.
> 
> * Include arc_summary.py into zfsutils.deb
> * Reenable dracut 'stuff'
> * Include my own iSCSI pull request - #1099.
> * Include my own SMBFS rewrite pull request - #1476.
> * Include my own NFS modifications - #2790.
> * Install systemd files.
> * New grub that supports all the new features introduced with ZoL 0.6.4.
>  Many thanx must go to Tomas Soome who wrote the patch for Illumos and
>  with my testing on Linux also 'ported' it to Linux.
> 
>  This means that the warning from Brian about NOT to update your pool
>  is not relevant for the Debian GNU/Linux packages.
> --
> If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing.
> - Homer Simpson
> 

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