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Your root pool setup doesn't really matter for GRUB compatibility. What's important is that you have the proper features setup on your boot pool. That's the one GRUB loads. |
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On Aug 23, 2021 12:24 PM, Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 11:11 AM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 04:15:10 -0400, John Covici wrote: |
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> > > Now, the problem is that I am using zfs and will not give it up, and |
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> > > the version I have been using 0.8.6 is no longer supported in 5.10 |
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> > > versions of the kernel. So, I need a newer version of zfs and a |
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> > > rescue cd in case I get into trouble. |
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> > It doesn't answer your question, other have done that, but FWIW I went |
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> > from ZFS 0.8.4 to 2.0 a year ago and it went without a hitch. Just emerge |
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> > the later ZFS packages first, check everything works then update your |
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> > kernel. |
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> Yeah, I'm pretty conservative with zfs upgrades but have had no |
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> issues. The one thing I wish is that there were better documentation |
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> of grub compatibility. I have a root partition I haven't upgraded the |
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> features on because I have no idea whether it would break grub, and |
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> you can't reverse this. Sure, I have backups but I really don't want |
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> to deal with the hassle of restoring a filesystem over some feature |
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> I'd have to google to even know what it does. |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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