Re: Bug#737568: RM: partman-zfs [amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 mips mipsel s390x sparc] -- ANAIS; no longer built on linux-any
On 03/02/14 21:49, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> Please remove partman-zfs from linux-any. It's only built on
> kfreebsd-any again since version 29.
A whole lot of changes got applied for the benefit on ZFS-on-Linux, so I
thought. It was sort of accidentally applied in master without a
review, the changes are not really explained in the changelog, and some
of it doesn't even make sense for kfreebsd.
The newly added option to create a 'ROOT' filesystem is redundant for
kfreebsd, because you could choose to mount any ZFS filesystem as the
root. Furthermore that new option creates a whole hierarchy of
subfilesystems for boot, home, var, usr without warning/asking. I
haven't tested, but it sounds likely to clobber any user-created UFS
filesystems mounted on any of those, particularly /boot. It's also
pre-defined and not templateable, whereas the original design (based on
partman-lvm) already was.
I feel tempted to revert much of it if kfreebsd is the only user of the
package now. I could maybe move those bits to a branch out of the way?
Regards,
--
Steven Chamberlain
steven@pyro.eu.org
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