From: Ian Eure <ian@retrospec.tv>
To: Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com>
Cc: Morgan Arnold <morgan.arnold@proton.me>, guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Status of ZFS support on Guix
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:18:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ikuahvpt.fsf@meson> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Mhb6sWzDS2N_9G3yl020kKXIWEoEvRR-Y1NcTZb4k8mVJRKKsDUB7dvIpg6FbZatgASiMXGLoy9EHspoKgLlG2LsM4CRlH6VIW7-GmAHMuI=@protonmail.com>
Hi Kaelyn, Morgan,
Kaelyn <kaelyn.alexi@protonmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, October 1st, 2024 at 1:23 PM, Morgan Arnold
> <morgan.arnold@proton.me> wrote:
>
> I'd love to know where any opposition may be at as well. At this
> point
> I have a private channel which actually replaces much of the
> bootloader and initrd functionality (in part to support ZFS in
> the
> initrd using https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55231). In the past
> year, I
> actually took advantage of having basically replicated much of
> the
> initrd functionality in my channel to create a simple bootloader
> based
> on the Linux kernel (with the EFI stubloader) and a custom
> initrd that
> uses kexec to boot the actual system. It still needs a lot of
> polish,
> but has been good enough that combined with a few other small
> hacks
> and workarounds, I have several systems now booting with ZFS
> roots
> (some unencrypted, some using native encryption). I have done
> little
> to upstream most of it, or even to share what I've done, because
> of
> the seeming resistance to ZFS.
>
I don’t think there’s resistance to ZFS. I do think there are
some legitimate open questions around licensing[1], but the main
issue seems to be that the contributor of #45692 chose to express
their frustration with the slow pace of Guix patch review[2] in
counterproductive and borderline abusive ways[3][4].
Personally, I’d very much like to see improved support for ZFS in
Guix. I have one machine with a cobbled-together Guix ZFS setup,
but proper support is a blocker for moving my primary ZFS-using
system off Debian.
Thanks,
— Ian
[1]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692#75
[2]: Which I *extremely* sympathize with.
[3]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692#72
[4]: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45692#78
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-03 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-01 20:23 Status of ZFS support on Guix Morgan Arnold
2024-10-02 22:07 ` Kaelyn
2024-10-03 0:18 ` Ian Eure [this message]
2024-10-03 17:23 ` Kaelyn
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