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Removed suggestion to use root dataset as bootfs
authorGregor Kopka <mailfrom-github@kopka.net>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:15:30 +0000 (01:15 +0100)
committerBrian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Wed, 9 Jan 2019 00:15:30 +0000 (16:15 -0800)
commit8bd2a2866ccc3f606566ce5503b32053948513ab
tree90d33a2c567a79810a60caab277f8962f6655fb6
parent9ef798b771b9b40968e207ad2a02092717dd628e
Removed suggestion to use root dataset as bootfs

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
contrib/dracut/README.dracut.markdown