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Turbo Fredriksson 2cac7f5f11 Initramfs scripts for ZoL.
* Supports booting of a ZFS snapshot.
  Do this by cloning the snapshot into a dataset. If this, the resulting
  dataset, already exists, destroy it. Then mount it on root.
  * If snapshot does not exist, use base dataset (the part before '@')
    as boot filesystem instead.
  * If no snapshot is specified on the 'root=' kernel command line, but there
    is an '@', then get a list of snapshots below that filesystem and ask the
    user which to use.
  * Clone with 'mountpoint=none' and 'canmount=noauto' - we mount manually
    and explicitly.
    * For sub-filesystems, that doesn't have a mountpoint property set, we use
      the 'org.zol:mountpoint' to keep track of it's mountpoint.
  * Allow rollback of snapshots instead of clone it and boot from the clone.
* Allow mounting a root- and subfs with mountpoint=legacy set
* Allow mounting a filesystem which is using nativ encryption.
* Support all currently used kernel command line arguments
  All the different distributions have their own standard on what to specify
  on the kernel command line to boot of a ZFS filesystem.
  * Extra options:
    * zfsdebug=(on,yes,1)	Show extra debugging information
    * zfsforce=(on,yes,1)	Force import the pool
    * rollback=(on,yes,1)	Rollback (instead of clone) the snapshot
* Only try to import pool if it haven't already been imported
  * This will negate the need to force import a pool that have not been exported cleanly.
  * Support exclusion of pools to import by setting ZFS_POOL_EXCEPTIONS in /etc/default/zfs.
* Support additional configuration variable ZFS_INITRD_ADDITIONAL_DATASETS
  to mount additional filesystems not located under your root dataset.
* Include /etc/modprobe.d/{zfs,spl}.conf in the initrd if it/they exist.
* Include the udev rule to use by-vdev for pool imports.
* Include the /etc/default/zfs file to the initrd.
* Only try /dev/disk/by-* in the initrd if USE_DISK_BY_ID is set.
  * Use /dev/disk/by-vdev before anything.
  * Add /dev as a last ditch attempt.
  * Fallback to using the cache file if that exist if nothing else worked.
* Use /sbin/modprobe instead of built-in (BusyBox) modprobe.
  This gets rid of the message "modprobe: can't load module zcommon".
  Thanx to pcoultha for finding this.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
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cmd Fix for recent zdb -h | -i crashes (seg fault) 2015-06-26 14:14:31 -07:00
config Initramfs scripts for ZoL. 2015-07-08 18:14:34 -07:00
contrib Initramfs scripts for ZoL. 2015-07-08 18:14:34 -07:00
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etc Add /dev/mapper to the list of possible sources for pool devices. 2015-06-29 12:32:05 -07:00
include Illumos 5008 - lock contention (rrw_exit) while running a read only load 2015-07-06 09:34:13 -07:00
lib Illumos 5163 - arc should reap range_seg_cache 2015-06-25 08:58:16 -07:00
man man: fix spelling mistakes in manual 2015-07-01 10:58:31 -07:00
module Prevent reclaim in metaslab preload threads 2015-07-06 09:36:13 -07:00
rpm Initramfs scripts for ZoL. 2015-07-08 18:14:34 -07:00
scripts Add ziltest.sh 2015-06-26 14:21:41 -07:00
udev Open pools asynchronously after module load 2013-07-03 09:24:38 -07:00
.gitignore Ignore *.{deb,rpm,tar.gz} files in the top directory. 2013-04-24 16:18:59 -07:00
.gitmodules Add zimport.sh compatibility test script 2014-02-21 12:10:31 -08:00
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COPYRIGHT Update ZED copyright boilerplate 2015-05-11 15:07:00 -07:00
DISCLAIMER Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
META Tag zfs-0.6.4 2015-04-08 20:16:45 -07:00
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README.markdown Fix minor typos and update marketing copy. 2013-03-21 12:51:06 -07:00
autogen.sh build: do not call boilerplate ourself 2013-04-02 10:55:20 -07:00
configure.ac Initramfs scripts for ZoL. 2015-07-08 18:14:34 -07:00
copy-builtin Consistent menuconfig name 2012-08-26 13:49:37 -07:00
zfs-script-config.sh.in Initial implementation of zed (ZFS Event Daemon) 2014-04-02 13:10:03 -07:00
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README.markdown

Native ZFS for Linux!

ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the Illumos community.

ZFS on Linux, which is also known as ZoL, is currently feature complete. It includes fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, ZVOL, and ZPL layers.

Full documentation for installing ZoL on your favorite Linux distribution can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org