[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Fwd: D-I && ZFS On Linux

[Turbo Fredriksson]

FYI: Should have Cc'd this list to.

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> Resent-From: debian-boot at lists.debian.org
> From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo at bayour.com>
> Subject: D-I && ZFS On Linux
> Date: April 18, 2015 11:17:07 AM GMT+02:00
> To: Debian Install System Team <debian-boot at lists.debian.org>
> Cc: Asias He <asias at debian.org>
> 
> "Some time ago" I created some patches for the debian installer to
> provide ZoL support on Linux. Since ZoL wasn't in the Debian GNU/Linux
> at the time, the where (of course) rejected.
> 
> But now that we have a green light from the lawyers, I think it's
> time to get this accepted again.
> 
> Because the lawyers apparently said that there is no allowance
> for binary modules (which, to me, was quite a surprise actually,
> but lets not dwell on that - it is what it is), we talked about
> this on #zfsonlinux a couple of days ago. The (best) suggestion
> was to use zfs-fuse for the initial pool and filesystem creation,
> and then build ZoL (using dkms) etc in /target.
> 
> The … "downside" of this is that it starts out with a v23/4 pool, but
> at least zfs-fuse in Debian GNU/Linux supports automatic ashift detection.
> 
> 
> For the last two days, I've been working on a prototype of this, and
> it worked just fine. I'm currently running this through a lot of tests
> to see if there's any hidden faults or problems.
> 
> Had to modify 'zfs-fuse' to create an udeb, but Asias He (maintainer of
> zfs-fuse) have taken a preliminary look at that patch, and he agrees with
> it and said he'd apply it "when I'm ready".
> 
> * Patch for zfs-fuse
>  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/3d137afe9d92ca740c3488fdbbd884f3076c5196
> 
> * Patch for debian-installer
>  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/e2c23b24586d769803bd13d9b1548a4f5693cf31
> 
> * Patch for partman-zfs
>  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/77002ed5774e742e510bd430d2403a7d82e576b2
> 
> * Patch for base-installer
>  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/0a1ad6270a1afbaf1829834d507f5b5f17a6d313
> 
> * Patch for grub-installer
>  https://github.com/zfsonlinux/debian-installers/commit/e5539414ac8508ad861941b5f2ca0b98af800d59
> 
> I'm going to need to clean these up a little (I had to do some hacks
> to some of them to be able to distribute it for ZoL), but the question
> is: Do I have to split up each patch into smaller chunks, or is it ok
> with one for each project?