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Re: Bug#737568: RM: partman-zfs [amd64 armel armhf i386 ia64 mips mipsel s390x sparc] -- ANAIS; no longer built on linux-any



Steven Chamberlain <steven@pyro.eu.org> (2014-02-03):
> 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?

Are you thinking about origin/zol?

Mraw,
KiBi.

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