u-boot & ZFS

[Tom Rini]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2021 at 06:03:10PM +0200, ChrisO wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I searched for u-boot ZFS references and all I found was several years old, but I suppose u-boot can cope with ZFS.
> So, my question is: is it possible to boot Linux from ZFS or at least boot from let's say SD-card with ext4 FS and mount a ZFS volume as root filesystem?
> I had a look at Armbian, installed all needed, user-space and kernel modules. After booting from SD card I can use ZFS on attached SATA SSD w/o any problem.
> I also see ZFS libs and kernel modules in initrd,  so it looks like the necessary things are there.
> Don't know where to start.
> I would be very thankful for any help.

The general easy answer is to have /boot that is separate from the
rootfs and using a filesystem more commonly supported.

-- 
Tom
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