Bug#721578: debian-installer: LVM + ZFS fails to work

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

Steven Chamberlain:
> So, ZFS more or less replaces LVM functionality.  Maybe there ought to
> be a 'Guided partitioning using ZFS' option...

Yes, of course. Adding this to partman-zfs is not trivial though (most
of partman-zfs mimics partman-lvm, but this part required extra work and
I didn't have time when I did the initial port).

> That's not to say it absolutely cannot work.  I'm not sure.  There could
> be a valid use case if someone merely wants to try ZFS and dual-boot it,
> if their entire disk is already LVM.  What does work well is using LVM
> logical volumes as virtual hard disks for a Xen or KVM guest for example.

Note that LVM support (with readonly metadata) in kFreeBSD D-I is still
incomplete. Most of the pieces are there though, I think you just need
to manually load the geom_lvm kernel modules.

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Robert Millan