Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

[John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com>]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 05:51:38 -0400,
Miles Malone wrote:
> 
> What is it makes you think system rescue cd isnt compatible with
> gentoo?  it's built on arch these days, but it's still the go-to
> rescue and install CD, and I cannot imagine it being an issue.  I
> suggest giving it a go and make sure it mounts your ZFS array without
> issues, and go from there.
> 
> It's still the USB boot image I use for absolutely everything in gentoo
> 
> On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 at 18:15, John Covici <covici@ccs.covici.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi.  I have been using 5.4 lts kernels for a while, but it seems I
> > need to change to 5.10 lts -- even Debian is now using 5.10, so it
> > seems time to do this.
> >
> > Now, the problem is that I am using zfs and will not give it up, and
> > the version I have been using 0.8.6 is no longer supported in 5.10
> > versions of the kernel.  So, I need a newer version of zfs and a
> > rescue cd in case I get into trouble.  Sysresc seems to no longer be
> > compatible withgentoo linux, so what is available?  I could use gentoo
> > catalyst to make something -- I have done that in the past, but its
> > quite a bit of work and I would prefer if there were something
> > available I could use out of the box.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Well, I cannot find any zfs packages and it does not say even what
kernel version it has -- but the whole point is I do need zfs and it
seems not to be there.

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