Actually, you can easily create an arch ISO with ZFS embedded into it. It's what I do, and it takes about five minutes to create. https://ramsdenj.com/2016/06/23/arch-linux-on-zfs-part-1-embed-zfs-in-archiso.html -- John Ramsden On Mon, Mar 12, 2018, at 8:33 PM, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote: > On 03/12/2018 11:07 PM, John Ramsden via arch-general wrote: > > For anyone not happy with dkms, the archzfs repo [1] offers great > > support for ZFS in binary form, and I've been using it for a few > > years now with no problems. > > The most important part of using zfs is installing it. Especially > considering the reason zfs was mentioned in this thread was as a > proposal that someone might want to consider installing it, the ability > to actually do so would be nice. > > You cannot install an Arch Linux system on zfs, without the zfs kernel > drivers compiled for your running kernel. > > You cannot build those kernel modules on the Arch installation media, > without doing a full system upgrade and installing the compiler > toolchain, while holding back the kernel itself and hunting for the > kernel headers matching the kernel from the ISO, then getting the zfs > sources and building that too. > On a ramdisk overlay filesystem. > > Now, in theory the archzfs repo provides some archiso packages for > exactly this use case. Except no they don't, because their archiso > packages have not been updated since October... > > This is less than entirely impressive. They have rebuilt everything > else, why not this? > > -- > Eli Schwartz > Bug Wrangler and Trusted User > > Email had 1 attachment: > + signature.asc > 1k (application/pgp-signature)
