Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-17 Thread Miguel Figueiredo
Hi all, thanks for your work adding support for zfs. The installer is becoming even more powerful. As it's a new feature needs to be documented on the manual at least on chapter "6.3.2.1. Supported partitioning options". And because it's a new feature, on the wiki or somewhere else to track new

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-17 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Robert, On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > 2010/10/14, Robert Millan : >> Done.  Should I upload this? > > Btw, now that #595007 has been fixed (thanks Colin!), this partman-zfs > package would be usable on unstable at least. > > I would be careful not to let it migrate

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-17 Thread Robert Millan
2010/10/14, Robert Millan : > Done. Should I upload this? Btw, now that #595007 has been fixed (thanks Colin!), this partman-zfs package would be usable on unstable at least. I would be careful not to let it migrate to squeeze unless parted 2.3-3 is allowed to migrate already. But my understand

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-14 Thread Robert Millan
2010/10/13, Otavio Salvador : > This wasn't clear from your patch. So please: > > - commit it into SVN; > - drop translation marks on templates (dropping _ from Description); > > Since it is a "new udeb" you could commit it in the final required > state, and put a note in the changelog about part

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-13 Thread Otavio Salvador
Robert, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Robert Millan wrote: > 2010/10/12, Otavio Salvador : >> Personally I see no problem in push this however it ought to be >> splited since the patch does more then the workaround. > > It's supposed to be applied onto a copy of partman-ufs, then it > becomes

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-12 Thread Robert Millan
2010/10/12, Otavio Salvador : > Personally I see no problem in push this however it ought to be > splited since the patch does more then the workaround. It's supposed to be applied onto a copy of partman-ufs, then it becomes a separate package. Is that what you mean? -- Robert Millan -- To

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-12 Thread Otavio Salvador
Hello Robert, On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:20 AM, Robert Millan wrote: > Here's a new patch.  It takes into account that filesystem > creation is stateful with ZFS (once a pool is created, it > remains "registered"), but partman expects it to be stateless. > > The workaround is to export the pool i

Bug#595759: new partman-zfs

2010-10-12 Thread Robert Millan
Here's a new patch. It takes into account that filesystem creation is stateful with ZFS (once a pool is created, it remains "registered"), but partman expects it to be stateless. The workaround is to export the pool inmediately after creating it, then import it when mounting it. -- Robert Milla