From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D8A41381F3 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 17:46:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DC89E07F5; Wed, 22 May 2013 17:46:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ea0-f182.google.com (mail-ea0-f182.google.com [209.85.215.182]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF619E07DF for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 17:46:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ea0-f182.google.com with SMTP id r16so1345069ead.13 for ; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:46:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=a/Lqznj6uUcz0upbJ7f1n9u+2WZuZVHvFnLmm1WNtag=; b=oP8AOluKBTbCqFbEWQylmhz8IGHyy6oJ/h5FGSj3Q+st6nxhohjmRJLL4p30EgQif9 P7XO+cZFHiYKcXDCo2tjHN6a/sn+bGHeSsdYColyZKGgTtX/67cblp3NYa46dv1Ddo4o j29Xll3MpREt/YXw5PRg7D51uXsZ+2Qgc+jXd4K0CV3ADSoTFF+FFN/PL5SFEp7BiKOQ VVU5Yl2IqoIs/J/lYVLXDNL/HW+o3IV6s5hfCU1djO9ufX+SEQjP1fC7tCQbdohFrFC9 afMdPgetc/u6SPCpLRGjsVQID5bmmmwy0Ai3vy1kgDm7LsOBvsit4vCse5D3AmaKC8et 6rfg== X-Received: by 10.15.108.141 with SMTP id cd13mr21244596eeb.46.1369244794379; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([80.92.253.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l6sm11688273eem.9.2013.05.22.10.46.33 for (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 22 May 2013 10:46:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 19:46:29 +0200 From: Robert David To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: doug.hunley@gmail.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] howto on setting up rootfs on ZFS? Message-ID: <20130522194629.2cbf3209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 2e2f9f0e-77bc-4f7f-9d49-d4f1403d2e98 X-Archives-Hash: 547962d2f1f95af0caa435ddd2504986 Hi, I use grml livecd for various recovery/livecd purposes. I just add an script to my boot partition to compile current zfs. Since it is debian based it contains installation through aptitude. Robert. /boot/zfs # ls install_zfs* spl-0.6.1.tar.gz zfs_create zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz /boot/zfs # cat install_zfs #!/bin/sh aptitude update aptitude install build-essential zlib1g-dev uuid-dev aptitude install linux-headers-3.7-1-grml-amd64 tar -xvzpf spl-0.6.1.tar.gz tar -xvzpf zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz cd spl-0.6.1 ./configure --prefix=/ make make install cd .. cd zfs-0.6.1 ./configure --prefix=/ make make install cd .. rm -rf zfs-0.6.1 rm -rf spl-0.6.1 On Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:33 -0400 Douglas J Hunley wrote: > I used the existing wiki to get ZFS up and running on my system a few > weeks ago and after getting familiar with it, beating it up a bit, > and breaking it in as many different ways as I could envision, I > think I'm happy with it. I'd now like to use it as my rootfs. I'm > going to leave /boot as a separate extX filesystem for simplicity's > sake. I can't find any decent Gentoo-related documentation on setting > up rootfs on ZFS. I'm not even sure what boot media supports ZFS > (system rescue cd doesn't, and my googling turns up a bunch of *bsd > based media). > > Anyone done this before and care to help a brotha out? >