On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 1:27 AM, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
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"
Which brings up something that has made me curious. Why does everyone name their zfs pool (and sometimes filesystem too) 'tank'? Is it just because that's what all the examples do, and people cut and paste, or don't want to deviate? Or superstition? Or tradition? Because when I gave ZFS a test, I refused, and named them something else, and not long after I had a hardware failure. Could this have been caused by an angry ZFS ghost who wasn't happy with my tankless system? / Brett