boot from zfs root

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#1 Thu, 2016-09-01 09:42
digrouz
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Hello,

I'm new to alpine linux and I'm wondering if someone was to boot it from a zfs root ? I've googled a bit and did not find any explicit info.

Fri, 2016-09-02 23:46
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According to the Alpine WIki, the only filesystems supported by the setup-disk script are ext{2,3,4} & btrfs:

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Alpine_setup_scripts#setup-disk

I use btrfs for my system, I used:
ROOTFS=btrfs setup-disk -m sys /mnt
When installing the system; I think this just add "btrfs" to the "features" section in /etc/mkinitfs/mkinitfs.conf so that the initrd has the correct modules.

I also have to add this kernel command line parameter to the bootloader:
modules=btrfs

Thu, 2016-10-20 09:14
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Thanks for the confirmation.

Fri, 2016-12-23 10:22
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Hello, I just saw in an announcement that alpine 3.5 is able to boot a zfs root now, is there a guide already somewhere for it?

Sun, 2016-12-25 12:13
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Hi,

I would also appreciate such wiki page, which would describe process of configuration of ZFS as a root file system.

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