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modules/nixos: add disko-zfs-swap #1252

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Mic92 commented Jun 8, 2024

Should I test installing this on build01?

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zowoq commented Jun 8, 2024

Should I test installing this on build01?

No, I'll do it myself.

I would appreciate a response to #1207 (comment).

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Mic92 commented Jun 10, 2024

Should I test installing this on build01?

No, I'll do it myself.

I would appreciate a response to #1207 (comment).

Without trying it myself, I can't tell.

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zowoq commented Jul 5, 2024

@Mic92 I tried this on build01. Installed, booted, another zfs import error. Is there some sort of weird systemd-boot / zfs problem?

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Mic92 commented Jul 5, 2024

@Mic92 I tried this on build01. Installed, booted, another zfs import error. Is there some sort of weird systemd-boot / zfs problem?

No. I use systemd-boot in many places. Only thing I can think of is that the pool is not exported correctly. In nixos-anywhere we do this: https://github.com/nix-community/nixos-anywhere/blob/f99d120b3788a286989db4e592a698f5d310d2f6/src/nixos-anywhere.sh#L516

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zowoq commented Jul 6, 2024

I disabled uefi on build03 so now it is the same as 01 and 02.

mountpoint = "/";
options.mountpoint = "legacy";
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writeback = {
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cannot create 'zroot/writeback': out of space

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For a new installation or incremental one?

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# Sometimes fails after the first try, with duplicate pool name errors
boot.initrd.systemd.services.zfs-import-zroot.serviceConfig.Restart = "on-failure";

zramSwap.writebackDevice = "/dev/zvol/zroot/writeback";
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Doesn't this suffer from the same issue that we also have with swap files on zfs filesystems? Also now that zfs has proper direct I/O maybe this is not an issue? https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-2.3.0-rc1

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zvol is used as an example in the zram-generator docs so I'm assuming that it works.

https://github.com/systemd/zram-generator/blob/766bfb0d297fe083cc29ab1886d8feff24f2ee58/man/zram-generator.conf.md?plain=1#L85

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