On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:38:54 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > > > > Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have > > version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even > > get a decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many > > options. > > > > Don't want to beat a dead horse, but zfs is also one of the reasons I > use the ubuntu cds. It is easy to get zfs running on an ubuntu > livecd. I forget if it is preinstalled, but I'm pretty sure it is all > packaged so it is basically a 1-2 liner to add it. I haven't looked > at it recently but the Funtoo docs suggest doing the same which is > where I got the tip. > > At the time systemrescuecd didn't support zfs out of copyright > concerns. Perhaps that has changed. People have strong feelings on > zfs. I get them, though it is 100% FOSS (even if the licensing was > engineered to cause GPL issues). IMO the biggest technical issue with > using it on linux is that it basically pulls in a bunch of other BSD > logic around stuff like caching so it isn't super-clean from a kernel > perspective. However, that is also part of why it is so stable - they > basically containerized the thing so that they didn't have a bazillion > regressions, and I think they've been slowly working on getting rid of > the middle layers. >
OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest has that in the kernel. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una cov...@ccs.covici.com