ZFS Installer Test Help

[Jose]

Hello, In response to this now old thread

I've been a bit busy lately hence can't responded in time on the previous old thread.

However had some time and made a "fast draft" update to the opnsense.sh developed by franco in hope to get some feedback about the ZFS installation process/functionality, it currently supports ISO files only as the source media in this test installer, but will fully support USB installers as well based on the testing feedback.

I've currently tested only on GPT/UFS and GPT/ZFS and seems to work well here, though I've only focused in the ZFS filesystem and more testing is much welcome.

Small video showing bsdinstaller working HERE

Testing sources can be found HERE

The current proposal does copy the files freshly from the source media, and does not requires for the live media to carry the base.txt etc. tarballs files, keeping the same size for convenience.

P.S. Note that the file copying process does not have a percentage gauge yet. 

Regards

[mimugmail]

In the next days there will be an 20.7 Alpha and should deliver native zfs installer (a guess)

[Jose]

Hi mimugmail, those are really great news definitely.

I will be happy to test that Alpha release on my hardware instead.

Regards

[franco]

The installer still needs to be ported as this won't happen magically. The initial work is here... https://github.com/opnsense/installer


Cheers,
Franco