On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
(Correct me if I'm wrong, but) grub support only matters if /boot is on ZFS. If /boot is (say) ext2 and / is ZFS, then it should be fine providing the ramdisk supports ZFS.
quite likely. i haven't cared enough about root-on-zfs to find out :)
Yes. The difficulty with ZFS is that you don't mount a block device on a mountpoint, you have the ZFS tools do the creation and mounting for you. So you create a volume group named "tank" and have a filesystem named "root" and it is automatically mounted as /tank/root along side /tank/isos, etc.
hmmm. having boot on ext2 would partly defeat the benefit of having root on zfs. you don't get to give the entire disk to zfs (needed for zfsonlinux to disable barriers)
No, you just use a USB stick or something to boot. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/