On Tuesday, 11 October 2016 10:30:01 PM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote:
I was rebooting anyway in order to replace a failed SSD on one machine and convert both of them to root on ZFS. It booted up OK on both, so I made it the default. If it refrains from sucking badly enough to really piss me off for a decent length of time, i'll leave it as the default.
That's a bold move. While ZFS has been totally reliable in preserving data I have had ongoing problems with filesystems not mounting when they should. I don't trust ZFS to be reliable as a root filesystem, I want my ZFS systems to allow me to login and run "zfs mount -a" if necessary.
(this is, of courtse, one of the reasons I dislike journald. logs should be plain text, so you can access them without specialised tools. and rsyslogd wasn't running in the semi-broken recovery mode that systemd dumped me in after making me wait 1m30s until it finished doing mysterious things (AFAICT, it was doing nothing except twiddling some stars on screen).
I agree that those things need to be improved. There should be a way to get to a root login while the 90 second wait is happening. There should be an easy and obvious way to display those binary logs from the system when it's not running systemd or from another system (IE logs copied from another system). -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/