Re: Reworked ZFS support in D-I, testers wanted
Hi Zach,
Thank you very much for testing.
2011/8/2 Zach JL <xaque208@gmail.com>:
> I was unable to destroy a pool from the menu. I needed to switch to a shell
> and "zpool destroy" to get rid of any existing configuration.
Please file a bug on partman-zfs. Keep in mind that I need at least
attached syslog output. Step by step instructions on how to reproduce
it (starting with an empty disk) would also help.
> It seems that the workflow only permits you to create a pool for creating
> logical volumes rather than using the pool directly. In the wheezy
> installer I tested last weekend, exactly the opposite is true, in that you
> create a pool to be used directly, albeit in a partition.
This is very complicated to solve due to the way the rest of partman
works. Why is it a problem anyway?
> Upon creating a zfs volume on a zpool, I received an error that the creation
> of partition #1 has failed.
Please file a bug.
> Inspection of the system/slash zfs volume
> show that it has type "volume". I think that the default should be
> filesystem, or at least give the user the opportunity to choose the type.
This has to do with partman workflow. It has to be created as a
volume because partman doesn't know what you will do with it. When
you decide you want ZFS in it, your dataset is supposed to be
converted to a native filesystem.
> Installation completed without further errors. Reboot failed with checksum
> invalid and bailed out to a grub rescue prompt.
Were you using a multi-disk setup when this happened? IIRC multi-disk
setups are only supported in recent GRUB and it hasn't been much
tested with them.
--
Robert Millan
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