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			Thorough documentation with a dracut.bootup(7)-style flowchart,
dracut.cmdline(7)-style cmdline listing,
and per-file docs like the old README
Upstream-commit: e3fc330d6c
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@nabijaczleweli.xyz>
Closes #13291
		
	
			
		
			
				
	
	
	
		
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	Basic setup
- Install zfs-dracut
- Set mountpoint=/for your root dataset (for compatibility,legacyalso works, but is not recommended for new installations):zfs set mountpoint=/ pool/dataset
- Either (a) set bootfs=on the pool to the dataset:zpool set bootfs=pool/dataset pool
- Or (b) append root=zfs:pool/datasetto your kernel cmdline.
- Re-generate your initrd and update it in your boot bundle
Encrypted datasets have keys loaded automatically or prompted for.
If the root dataset contains children with mountpoint=s of /etc, /bin, /lib*, or /usr, they're mounted too.
For complete documentation, see dracut.zfs(7).
cmdline
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root=Root dataset is… (empty) the first bootfs=afterzpool import -aNzfs:AUTO,zfs:,zfs(as above, but overriding other autoselection methods) ZFS=pool/datasetpool/datasetzfs:pool/dataset(as above) All +es are replaced with spaces (i.e. to boot fromroot pool/data set, passroot=zfs:root+pool/data+set).The dataset can be at any depth, including being the pool's root dataset (i.e. root=zfs:pool).rootfstype=zfsis equivalent toroot=zfs:AUTO,rootfstype=zfs root=pool/datasetis equivalent toroot=zfs:pool/dataset.
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spl_hostid: passed tozgenhostid -f, useful to override the/etc/hostidfile baked into the initrd.
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bootfs.snapshot,bootfs.snapshot=snapshot-name: enableszfs-snapshot-bootfs.service, which creates a snapshot$root_dataset@$(uname -r)(or, in the second form,$root_dataset@snapshot-name) after pool import but before the rootfs is mounted. Failure to create the snapshot is noted, but booting continues.
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bootfs.rollback,bootfs.rollback=snapshot-name: enableszfs-snapshot-bootfs.service, which-Rfrolls back to$root_dataset@$(uname -r)(or, in the second form,$root_dataset@snapshot-name) after pool import but before the rootfs is mounted. Failure to roll back will fall down to the rescue shell. This has obvious potential for data loss: make sure your persistent data is not below the rootfs and you don't care about any intermediate snapshots.
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If both bootfs.snapshotandbootfs.rollbackare set,bootfs.rollbackis ordered afterbootfs.snapshot.
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zfs_force,zfs.force,zfsforce: add-fto allzpool importinvocations. May be useful. Use with caution.