From 2c28a2168dbeecc94f044f0aee006b897ce63bc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: George Melikov Date: Sun, 27 May 2018 18:49:14 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] disable some features for 0.7 release --- Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS.md | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS.md b/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS.md index 35af465..ef75f35 100644 --- a/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS.md +++ b/Debian-Stretch-Root-on-ZFS.md @@ -74,14 +74,13 @@ Always use the long `/dev/disk/by-id/*` aliases with ZFS. Using the `/dev/sd*` # zpool create -o ashift=12 \ -O atime=off -O canmount=off -O compression=lz4 -O normalization=formD \ -O mountpoint=/ -R /mnt \ - -o feature@large_dnode=disabled \ rpool /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_disk1-part1 **Notes:** * The use of `ashift=12` is recommended here because many drives today have 4KiB (or larger) physical sectors, even though they present 512B logical sectors. Also, a future replacement drive may have 4KiB physical sectors (in which case `ashift=12` is desirable) or 4KiB logical sectors (in which case `ashift=12` is required). * Setting `normalization=formD` eliminates some corner cases relating to UTF-8 filename normalization. It also implies `utf8only=on`, which means that only UTF-8 filenames are allowed. If you care to support non-UTF-8 filenames, do not use this option. For a discussion of why requiring UTF-8 filenames may be a bad idea, see [The problems with enforced UTF-8 only filenames](http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/linux/ForcedUTF8Filenames). * Make sure to include the `-part1` portion of the drive path. If you forget that, you are specifying the whole disk, which ZFS will then re-partition, and you will lose the bootloader partition(s). -* GRUB doesn't support all pool features, disable them: `-o feature@large_dnode=disabled` +* GRUB doesn't support all pool features of 0.7 release, if you install ZFS from backports or use Proxmox, disable them: `-o feature@large_dnode=disabled` **Hints:** * The root pool does not have to be a single disk; it can have a mirror or raidz topology. In that case, repeat the partitioning commands for all the disks which will be part of the pool. Then, create the pool using `zpool create ... rpool mirror /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_disk1-part1 /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_disk2-part1` (or replace `mirror` with `raidz`, `raidz2`, or `raidz3` and list the partitions from additional disks). Later, install GRUB to all the disks. This is trivial for MBR booting; the UEFI equivalent is currently left as an exercise for the reader.