Re: ZFS'ing my T5120 with Debian

[Chris Ross <cross+debian@distal.com>]

On Mon, May 21, 2018 at 01:54:36PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> I have a T5120 currently running on sdd, and want to install a fresh debian
> on ZFS datasets on sda through sdc.  I want to install a fresh OS onto those
> zvols.  How much of that process is built into just running the debian
> installer, and how much will I need to manually set up?  I assume I need to
> create the zfs volumes, which I'm comfortable doing. (First, does anyone know
> if booting from RAIDZ works, or if I need to use ZFS mirror (as I did on
> FreeBSD)?
> 
> After that is there a "install everything" process, or a set of steps I
> need to take one at a time to install pieces, set up disks for booting, and/or
> other things.

  Hello again.  Am hoping for answers to two questions:

1) It it suspected that I can boot from a RAIDZ on sparc64? (Does zfs-linux
and grub allow for that on any arch?)
2) What do I need to do after creating ZFS volumes to perform a base install
onto those filesystems.  I have them all mounted onto an alt-root, is the next
step getting/running debian-installer, or another "please install the whole OS"
process?

  Thanks.

                 - Chris