Please... ZFS with Architect

[ZFS]

Last time I installed Manjaro 20.1 there were missing kernel headers for a ZFS install, so I went with Manjaro xfce.

I’m very happy after evaluation and would like to reinstall on ZFS.

Is there a guide how to install ZFS headers during Architect installation ?

Would be so great.

Thanx, Erik

[bogdancovaciu]

Renamed title and edited the content to remove unnecessary, probably interpretable as heavy sarcasm, pointers to an inexistent entity.

Here some hints for ZFS:

Manjaro installation with ZFS

Can you provide a little more background here? Are you using architect, the manual CLI method or the graphical installer? Are you trying to add zfs support or install root on zfs? Which ISO are you using to install? At what point in the process are you getting that error?

linux58-zfs and linux59-zfs are in repos.

[ZFS]

I used manjaro-architect-20.0.3-200607-linux56.iso
and the ZFS formatting failed because of missing linux58-zfs header

[bogdancovaciu]

linux56 doesn’t have the zfs module, obviously. Architect would need another rebuild with a newer kernel, then the zfs module would be available during install.
The team is working on something else right now. Once that is done, probably @Chrysostomus will have another look at Architect.

[olividir]

I just installed from Architect 20.1 and the install had no problem with ZFS with the 5.8 kernel.

[Chrysostomus]

@oberon can you add zfs headers to the manjaro-architect iso?

[eugen-b]

With ZFS for the root partition always make a backup of the system, because you won’t be able to chroot into it from a live USB to repair it in case of a breakage. The only repair possible is to restore a backup. But making backups is easy which makes it less of a problem. That’s what I understand about ZFS for root on Linux.

Edit: I was a bit wrong, see below, you need an ISO with kernel headers and/or zfs extra module to be able to chroot. I case Manjaro doesn’t support it, create your own iso.

[dalto]

@eugen-b

because you won’t be able to chroot into it from a live USB to repair it in case of a breakage

You can. You just need an ISO with the either the zfs modules or the kernel headers on it. As long as you ensure you have an ISO with zfs modules on it, you should be fine.