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On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have |
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> version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even |
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> get a decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many |
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> options. |
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Don't want to beat a dead horse, but zfs is also one of the reasons I |
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use the ubuntu cds. It is easy to get zfs running on an ubuntu |
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livecd. I forget if it is preinstalled, but I'm pretty sure it is all |
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packaged so it is basically a 1-2 liner to add it. I haven't looked |
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at it recently but the Funtoo docs suggest doing the same which is |
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where I got the tip. |
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At the time systemrescuecd didn't support zfs out of copyright |
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concerns. Perhaps that has changed. People have strong feelings on |
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zfs. I get them, though it is 100% FOSS (even if the licensing was |
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engineered to cause GPL issues). IMO the biggest technical issue with |
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using it on linux is that it basically pulls in a bunch of other BSD |
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logic around stuff like caching so it isn't super-clean from a kernel |
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perspective. However, that is also part of why it is so stable - they |
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basically containerized the thing so that they didn't have a bazillion |
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regressions, and I think they've been slowly working on getting rid of |
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the middle layers. |
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Rich |
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