Hi, I use grml livecd for various recovery/livecd purposes. I just add an script to my boot partition to compile current zfs. Since it is debian based it contains installation through aptitude.
Robert. /boot/zfs # ls install_zfs* spl-0.6.1.tar.gz zfs_create zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz /boot/zfs # cat install_zfs #!/bin/sh aptitude update aptitude install build-essential zlib1g-dev uuid-dev aptitude install linux-headers-3.7-1-grml-amd64 tar -xvzpf spl-0.6.1.tar.gz tar -xvzpf zfs-0.6.1.tar.gz cd spl-0.6.1 ./configure --prefix=/ make make install cd .. cd zfs-0.6.1 ./configure --prefix=/ make make install cd .. rm -rf zfs-0.6.1 rm -rf spl-0.6.1 On Mon, 20 May 2013 13:52:33 -0400 Douglas J Hunley <doug.hun...@gmail.com> wrote: > I used the existing wiki to get ZFS up and running on my system a few > weeks ago and after getting familiar with it, beating it up a bit, > and breaking it in as many different ways as I could envision, I > think I'm happy with it. I'd now like to use it as my rootfs. I'm > going to leave /boot as a separate extX filesystem for simplicity's > sake. I can't find any decent Gentoo-related documentation on setting > up rootfs on ZFS. I'm not even sure what boot media supports ZFS > (system rescue cd doesn't, and my googling turns up a bunch of *bsd > based media). > > Anyone done this before and care to help a brotha out? >
