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#329 Update ZFS version

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2019-10-07
2019-08-29
Redsandro
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ZFS support with zfs-fuse is really old. I cannot mount my 0.8 clusters. Can we get an updated ZFS version?

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  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2019-08-31

    We use the packages from Debian or Ubuntu repository. Hence if there is newer zfs-fuse ready in Debian or Ubuntu repository, we will use that. It's recommended to file a wishlist in Debian or Ubuntu instead of here. Thank you very much.

    Steven

     
  • Redsandro

    Redsandro - 2019-08-31

    Wasn't zfs-fuse deprecated a long time ago (pre 16.04)? I recall it being surpassed by a kernel module with zfsutils-linux and zfs-initramfs since 16.04 onward. If zfs-fuse, although being deprecated, is still being kept uptodate, something else must be going on in my setup.

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2019-09-01

    OK, thanks for your input. We will add zfsutils-linux and zfs-initramfs in the next testing Clonezilla live.

    Steven

     
  • Redsandro

    Redsandro - 2019-09-02

    Thank you. Looking forward to trying this out! 👍

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2019-09-03

    Please give testing Clonezilla live >= 20190903-eoan amd64 a try:
    https://clonezilla.org/downloads.php
    The OpenZFS support is only for Ubuntu-based amd64 because for Debian, too many other packages are required, like dkms, gcc...
    Since I do not use ZFS here, if you test that, please let us know the results. Thanks.

    Steven

     
  • Redsandro

    Redsandro - 2019-09-21

    This works with my ZFS 0.8 installation! Nice update!

    As a related note, since Clonezilla is kind of the wizard around related tools, I would like to see the available zfs pools mentioned in the wizard when choosing a backup image source/target. Now I have to do everything manually. Which is not a problem if you are nerdy enough. But so are the other options like ssh, samba etc.

    Could be like zfs -> select pool -> select dataset

     
  • Steven Shiau

    Steven Shiau - 2019-10-06

    I have almost zero exeprience about ZFS. If you can show me more details about that, maybe we can try to implement that in the Clonezilla wizard.
    Thanks.

    Steven

     
  • Redsandro

    Redsandro - 2019-10-07

    I have no experience/idea how to script this, so I'm not sure if this helps. But these are the commands I would run manually.

    First zpool status that shows the pools that exist. Then there is one or more pools. Usually one. If the name is mypool, we can run zpool import mypool to load the datasets. This will automatically mount all the datasets to their preconfigured mount targets. To show the datasets we can run zfs list.

     

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