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Relying on an /etc/hostid file which is installed in the system image breaks diskless systems which share an image. Certain cluster infrastructure such as MPI relies on all nodes having a unique hostid. However, we still must be careful to ensure the hostid is syncronized between the initramfs and system images when using zfs root filesystems. To accompish this the automatically created /etc/hostid file has been removed from the spl rpm packaging. The /etc/hostid file is now dynamically created for your initramfs as part of the dracut install process. This avoids the need to install it in the actual system images. This change also resolves the spl_hostid parameter handling for dracut. Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov> Closes #398 Closes #399 Signed-off-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Native ZFS for Linux! ZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris. It has been successfully ported to FreeBSD and now there is a functional Linux ZFS kernel port too. The port currently includes a fully functional and stable SPA, DMU, and ZVOL with a ZFS Posix Layer (ZPL) on the way!
$ ./configure
$ make pkg
Full documentation for building, configuring, and using ZFS can be found at: http://zfsonlinux.org