rei-forks/zfs-installer
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Projects Releases Wiki Activity

Merge branch 'master' into stable

Browse Source
This commit is contained in:
Saverio Miroddi 2020-02-07 18:41:55 +01:00
commit 107fcb5d64
2 changed files with 9 additions and 8 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

15
README.md
View File

@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ The program currently supports:
- Ubuntu Desktop/Server 18.04.x Live
- Linux Mint 19.x
- ~~Debian 10.x Live (desktop environment required)~~ (currently has an [issue](https://github.com/saveriomiroddi/zfs-installer/issues/59))
- Debian 10.x Live (desktop environment required)
- ElementaryOS 5.1
The ZFS version installed is 0.8, which supports native encryption and trimming (among the other improvements over 0.7). The required repositories are automatically added to the destination system.
@ -21,8 +21,6 @@ RAID-1 (mirroring) is supported, with any arbitrary number of disks; the boot an
It's fairly easy to extend the program to support other Debian-based operating systems (e.g. older/newer Ubuntu's, etc.) - the project is (very) open to feature requests.
The Ubuntu Server alternate (non-live) version is not supported, as it's based on the Busybox environment, which lacks several tools used in the installer (apt, rsync...).
## Advantages over the Ubuntu 19.10 built-in installer
Canonical released Ubuntu 19.10, with an experimental ZFS installer. The advantages of this project over the 19.10 installer are:
@ -32,10 +30,6 @@ Canonical released Ubuntu 19.10, with an experimental ZFS installer. The advanta
additionally, as explained in the previous section, the script can be easily adapted for other operating systems.
## Status
The script is in "open beta"; it's been tested on different configurations, but promoting the program to stable requires testing on a large amount of systems, as there always system-related peculiarities that need to be handled.
## Instructions
Start the live CD of a supported Linux distribution, then open a terminal and execute:
@ -55,6 +49,13 @@ Ubuntu Server requires a slightly different execution procedure:
the rest is the same as the generic procedure.
### Issues/unsupported systems
As of Feb/2020, Debian 10.x does not install stably on Virtualbox 6.x (but works fine on VMWare 15.5).
For unclear reasons, the EFI partition is not recognized unless the live CD is left in the virtual reader when rebooting after the installation (!).
The Ubuntu Server alternate (non-live) version is not supported, as it's based on the Busybox environment, which lacks several tools used in the installer (apt, rsync...).
### Unattended installations
The program supports unattended installation, via environment variables. The program built-in help explains all the options:

2
install-zfs.sh
View File

@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ c_default_rpool_tweaks="-o ashift=12 -O acltype=posixacl -O compression=lz4 -O d
c_zfs_mount_dir=/mnt
c_installed_os_data_mount_dir=/target
c_unpacked_subiquity_dir=/tmp/ubiquity_snap_files
declare -A c_supported_linux_distributions=([Ubuntu]=18.04 [UbuntuServer]=18.04 [LinuxMint]=19 [elementary]=5.1)
declare -A c_supported_linux_distributions=([Debian]=10 [Ubuntu]=18.04 [UbuntuServer]=18.04 [LinuxMint]=19 [elementary]=5.1)
c_temporary_volume_size=12G # large enough; Debian, for example, takes ~8 GiB.
c_log_dir=$(dirname "$(mktemp)")/zfs-installer