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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 03:49:37
Message-Id: CAOdo=SyFs=Y55Lo70nfQ-J2SJEHOA4VUxXNXRJwwvvb1GNVHAQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Safeguarding strategies against SSD data loss by Rich Freeman
1 On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann
3 > <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote:
4 >> Am 27.10.2014 um 16:36 schrieb Rich Freeman:
5 >>>
6 >>> and a boot
7 >>> partition as I don't think grub supports it - it could be a bit of a
8 >>> PITA for a single-drive system.
9 >>
10 >> nope. But I don't see any reason to use zfs with a single drive either.
11 >
12 > True, not needing to use FUSE does simplify things, but I don't
13 > believe that grub supports zfs, so you would need a boot partition.
14 > Granted, a newer laptop would need that for EFI anyway.
15
16 # ls /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/z*
17 /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/zfs.mod /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/zfscrypt.mod
18 /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/zfsinfo.mod
19
20 so you only need "/boot/efi" to be a fat partition.