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I've never used a boot environment. Is there a way to use a boot environment to have a ZFS-backed Windows install?
by willis936 4y ago
I've never used a boot environment. Is there a way to use a boot environment to have a ZFS-backed Windows install?
- infogulch 4y agoYou may be interested in recent (~the last month) developments in adding Windows support to OpenZFS: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/14034 https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/14034
- seized 4y agoI don't see that ever adding boot environment support to Windows though, at least not in a way that's comparable to how it should work.
- infogulch 4y agoI agree that is unlikely, windows will still need to boot itself on NTFS. That said you could probably remap basically everything but what is absolutely necessary onto a zfs filesystem.
- seized 4y agoNot really, you can snapshot virtual disks to get kinda sorta close for VMs, but that's the whole disk and all data. Boot environments are closely linked to the filesystem layout where home folders are a separate ZFS dataset so that data isn't lost when booting to an old BE.
- fomine3 4y agoIt's not ZFS, but let's check this with btrfs https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble