[CentOS] ZFS on Linux testing effort

[Cliff Pratt]

Grub only needs to know about the filesystems that it uses to boot the
system. Mounting of the other file systems including /var is the
responsibility of the system that has been booted. I suspect that you have
something else wrong if you can't boot with /var/ on ZFS.

I may be wrong, but I don't think so. If grub needed to know about the file
systems other than the one it is using to boot, then it would have
parameters to describe the other file systems.

Cheers,

Cliff


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Lists <lists at benjamindsmith.com> wrote:

> On 11/30/2013 06:20 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > http://zfsonlinux.org/epel.html
> >
> > If you have a little time and resource please install and report back
> > any problems you see.
> >
>
> Andrew,
>
> I want to run /var on zfs, but when I try to move /var over it won't
> boot thereafter, with errors about /var/log missing. Reading the ubuntu
> howto for ZFS indicates that while it's possible to even boot from zfs,
> it's a rather long and complicated process.
>
> I don't want to boot from ZFS, but it appears that grub needs to be set
> up to support ZFS in order to be able to mount zfs filesystems, and it's
> possible that EL6's grub just isn't new enough. Is there a howto/
> instructions for setting up zfs on CentOS/6 so that it's available on boot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
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