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Fang
Asked: 2020-09-26 07:40:28 +0800 CST

autoinstall and zfs on root partition

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We're moving our custom ubuntu installers from the d-i to autoinstall and I'm wondering whether it's possible to install zfs on the root partition automatically. Ideally I'd like to setup a raid-0 between two disks in my system formatted with ZFS.

I see no mention of this in the reference.

partitioning raid zfs

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    I have not used zfs with autoinstall, but the storage section of the autoinstall file essentially gets passed through to curtin. The curtin documentation suggests zfs support is there, but experimental

    https://curtin.readthedocs.io/en/latest/topics/storage.html?highlight=zfs#format-command

    Filesystems support for ZFS on root is Experimental. Utilizing the the fstype: zfsroot will indicate to curtin that it should automatically inject the appropriate type: zpool and type: zfs command structures based on which target volume is specified in the format command. There may be only one zfsroot entry. The disk that contains the zfsroot must be partitioned with a GPT partition table. Curtin will fail to install if these requirements are not met.

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