Re: [gentoo-user] rescue cd for zfs 2.1 or thereabouts

[John Covici]

On Mon, 23 Aug 2021 13:38:45 -0400,
Meik Frischke wrote:
>
> Am Mo., 23. Aug. 2021 um 10:15 Uhr schrieb John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>:
> >
> > Hi.  I have been using 5.4 lts kernels for a while, but it seems I
> > need to change to 5.10 lts -- even Debian is now using 5.10, so it
> > seems time to do this.
> >
> > Now, the problem is that I am using zfs and will not give it up, and
> > the version I have been using 0.8.6 is no longer supported in 5.10
> > versions of the kernel.  So, I need a newer version of zfs and a
> > rescue cd in case I get into trouble.  Sysresc seems to no longer be
> > compatible withgentoo linux, so what is available?  I could use gentoo
> > catalyst to make something -- I have done that in the past, but its
> > quite a bit of work and I would prefer if there were something
> > available I could use out of the box.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> LRS (Linux Recovery System) [1] may be an alternative. It is a
> Gentoo-based live system with ZFS support and was (partly) inspired by
> the move of SystemRescue to Arch.
> Latest changelog states:
>
> > ============ 20210820.17 ============
> > [X] Multiple updates and rebuilds applied
> > [X] Kernel updated to 5.10.60 + ZFS modules
>
> It seems to be updated regularly and may be worth a try.
>
> Regards,
> Meik
>
> [1] https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1106306.html
>

I will definitely check this out --  Thanks.

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