RArabf·Jul 23, 2024
Best option to date: https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
A shame most distro's installers don't support it natively, but an encrypted rootfs on ZFS is great once you get it setup.
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zfsbootmenu
Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
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Bootloader for root-on-ZFS systems with support for snapshots and native full disk encryption
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3 sourcesAs an aside I can heartedly recommend zfsbootmenu for anyone using zfs on linux:
https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu
In No more boot loader: Please use the kernel insteadWe use a couple nice home-grown functions in ZFSBootMenu to help debug things. We have a zdebug logging function that's peppered liberally throughout the code base - https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme...
Hitting ctrl-t on our main menu will, when booting with debug logging enabled, show a screen like this: https://i.imgur.com/Ge75zkP.png
We also have a flamegraph profiling mechanism that can be enabled with https://github.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/blob/master/zfsbootme... . That will dump data to a serial port, which when re-assembled, can be used to produce a graph like https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zbm-dev/zfsbootmenu/master...
Bash is suprisingly flexible.
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