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Slightly off-topic but if anyone has any resources on performing a clean (preferably, Ubuntu or Arch) Linux "root on ZFS" installation, please share. I followe

Slightly off-topic but if anyone has any resources on performing a clean (preferably, Ubuntu or Arch) Linux "root on ZFS" installation, please share. I followed the instructions for Ubuntu 16.04 on the github.com/zfsonlinux wiki [0] a while back and (encountered a few little issues along the way but) got it working, although I experienced some MAJOR performance problems so something wasn't quite right (exact same hardware is blazing fast when running FreeBSD). I can't imagine it was just "how things are" with regard to the current state of ZFS on Linux (or Ubuntu specifically) -- it was like someone hit the laptop's "pause" button a couple of times per minute. [0]: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-ZFS https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/wiki/Ubuntu-16.04-Root-on-...

imsofuture 10y ago
This sounds crazy, and is, but following those instructions verbatim with a 16.04 install I managed to brick a new laptop. Yeah...
- iso-8859-1 10y ago
  Define "brick". You flashed the wrong BIOS?
  - pantalaimon 10y ago
    Possibly deleted the efi partition
    - vmp 10y ago
      Or "rm -Rf /" with a writable /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ mount. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
      - the_why_of_y 10y ago
        This problem was fixed half a year ago, surely Ubuntu 16.04 should have a backport of the relevant commits? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0389075ecfb6231818de9b0225d3a5a21a661171 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
michaelmrose 10y ago
Funtoo has a zfs install guide worked for me. http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide
binwiederhier 10y ago
This works wonderfully for me: https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/9ba0983b392b6468504e9bbdf8ae0fa1 https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/9ba0983b392b6468504e9b.... I know it's not a tutorial or anything, but I hope it helps.
SSLy 10y ago
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_o...

imsofuture 10y ago

This sounds crazy, and is, but following those instructions verbatim with a 16.04 install I managed to brick a new laptop. Yeah...

iso-8859-1 10y ago
Define "brick". You flashed the wrong BIOS?
- pantalaimon 10y ago
  Possibly deleted the efi partition
  - vmp 10y ago
    Or "rm -Rf /" with a writable /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/ mount. https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402 https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
    - the_why_of_y 10y ago
      This problem was fixed half a year ago, surely Ubuntu 16.04 should have a backport of the relevant commits? https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0389075ecfb6231818de9b0225d3a5a21a661171 https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....

michaelmrose 10y ago

Funtoo has a zfs install guide worked for me. http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide http://www.funtoo.org/ZFS_Install_Guide

binwiederhier 10y ago

This works wonderfully for me: https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/9ba0983b392b6468504e9bbdf8ae0fa1 https://gist.github.com/binwiederhier/9ba0983b392b6468504e9b.... I know it's not a tutorial or anything, but I hope it helps.

SSLy 10y ago

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_on_ZFS https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_Arch_Linux_o...