Unlike other filesystems, snapshots and rollbacks of bootfs need to be
done from a rescue environment. This patch makes it possible to snap-
shot or rollback the bootfs simply by specifying bootfs.snapshot or
bootfs.rollback on the kernel command line. The operation will be
performed by dracut just before bootfs is mounted.
Reviewed-by: Antonio Russo <antonio.e.russo@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Gregory Bartholomew <gregory.lee.bartholomew@gmail.com>
Closes#10198
The dracut howto proposed to boot from the root dataset of a pool.
Apart from this giving problems when booting (as the code seems to
expect a child dataset and creates an illegal dataset name when using
the root dataset) the technical limitations of the root dataset
(among others the inability to rename or destroy through the `zfs`
command) resulted in the general consensus to only use it as a
container for the datasets in the pool - not as a filesystem itself.
Removed the idea to boot from the root dataset.
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: bunder2015 <omfgbunder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Gregor Kopka <gregor@kopka.net>
Closes#8247
The dracut code is analogous to the initramfs code and as such
it should be located in the contrib with initramfs for consistency.
Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
