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| author | Gregor Kopka <[email protected]> | 2019-01-09 01:15:30 +0100 |
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| committer | Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> | 2019-01-08 16:15:30 -0800 |
| commit | 8bd2a2866ccc3f606566ce5503b32053948513ab (patch) | |
| tree | 90d33a2c567a79810a60caab277f8962f6655fb6 /contrib/dracut | |
| parent | 9ef798b771b9b40968e207ad2a02092717dd628e (diff) | |
Removed suggestion to use root dataset as bootfs
The dracut howto proposed to boot from the root dataset of a pool.
Apart from this giving problems when booting (as the code seems to
expect a child dataset and creates an illegal dataset name when using
the root dataset) the technical limitations of the root dataset
(among others the inability to rename or destroy through the `zfs`
command) resulted in the general consensus to only use it as a
container for the datasets in the pool - not as a filesystem itself.
Removed the idea to boot from the root dataset.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: bunder2015 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Gregor Kopka <[email protected]>
Closes #8247
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/dracut')
| -rw-r--r-- | contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown b/contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown index 46d032f70..b5fb288a1 100644 --- a/contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown +++ b/contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown @@ -11,12 +11,6 @@ the dataset mountpoint property to '/'. $ zpool set bootfs=pool/dataset pool $ zfs set mountpoint=/ pool/dataset -It is also possible to set the bootfs property for an entire pool, just in -case you are not using a dedicated dataset for '/'. - - $ zpool set bootfs=pool pool - $ zfs set mountpoint=/ pool - Alternately, legacy mountpoints can be used by setting the 'root=' option on the kernel line of your grub.conf/menu.lst configuration file. Then set the dataset mountpoint property to 'legacy'. |