Installing Alpine to ZFS / ? | Alpine Linux forums

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#1 Wed, 2017-04-12 08:38

emacsomancer

It seems that Alpine Linux can be installed to a ZFS / [ http://news.softpedia.com/news/alpine-linux-3-5-hits-the-streets-with-zfs-support-as-root-switches-to-libressl-511235.shtml ], but I can't find information on how to do so, and when I try `disk-install` it complains that zfs is not a choice (only ext{2,3,4}, btrfs).

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

(I'm planning to use rEFInd as a bootloader to simplify booting a variety of Linuxen, BSDs from (different datasets) on the same ZFS zpool.)

#2 Tue, 2018-02-06 19:57

inf3rno

Any progress? :-)

#3 Wed, 2018-03-28 11:40

jodumont

I recently found a great article about ZFS and more or less RAID in general
http://louwrentius.com/the-hidden-cost-of-using-zfs-for-your-home-nas.html

also; you don't need to run your OS on ZFS to be able to use ZFS for your data and services.
https://www.reddit.com/r/homelab/comments/7aplh9/alpine_linux_kvm_and_zfs_experiences/

It might worth to run alpine with ext4 on USBkey than use ZFS to manage all your drive.