On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have > version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even > get a decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many > options. >
Don't want to beat a dead horse, but zfs is also one of the reasons I use the ubuntu cds. It is easy to get zfs running on an ubuntu livecd. I forget if it is preinstalled, but I'm pretty sure it is all packaged so it is basically a 1-2 liner to add it. I haven't looked at it recently but the Funtoo docs suggest doing the same which is where I got the tip. At the time systemrescuecd didn't support zfs out of copyright concerns. Perhaps that has changed. People have strong feelings on zfs. I get them, though it is 100% FOSS (even if the licensing was engineered to cause GPL issues). IMO the biggest technical issue with using it on linux is that it basically pulls in a bunch of other BSD logic around stuff like caching so it isn't super-clean from a kernel perspective. However, that is also part of why it is so stable - they basically containerized the thing so that they didn't have a bazillion regressions, and I think they've been slowly working on getting rid of the middle layers. -- Rich
