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Support DOS partitioning #719

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ryao opened this issue May 3, 2012 · 4 comments
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Support DOS partitioning #719

ryao opened this issue May 3, 2012 · 4 comments
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@ryao
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ryao commented May 3, 2012

it seems that some EFI implementations refuse to start the MBR bootloader when they see a GPT partition signature:

http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion-Knowledge-Base/Configuring-SSD-to-run-with-Linux-Thinkpad-X220/ta-p/584583

This poses a problem for using ZFS as the root filesystem. As such, it would be useful to have an option for DOS partitioning at pool creation.
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In case a device claims support for UEFI it must support GPT - since it is a subset of the standard.

In case the Thinkpad X220 dosn't support booting from GPT then its UEFI implementation is broken and the device should be returned to the manufacturer for replacement (or refund, in case they think that it's a good idea to only boot windows).

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ryao commented May 3, 2012

As a downstream maintainer, it is not acceptable for me to tell users to return hardware that they might no longer have the ability to return.

Also, this issue was encountered by Daniel Robbins, the creator of Gentoo. I would like to do what I can to address it. Of course, my time is limited and I cannot do something right away, but it is on my list.

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ryao commented Dec 8, 2012

I finally found time to install Gentoo Linux on ZFS on my Thinkpad T520i. It suffers from the same issue.

@FransUrbo FransUrbo mentioned this issue Jun 8, 2014
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@behlendorf behlendorf removed this from the 0.7.0 milestone Oct 6, 2014
@behlendorf behlendorf mentioned this issue May 28, 2015
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FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue May 29, 2015
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Option to disable automatic EFI partitioning.
a25d0a3 
Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So add a '-D' option to 'add', 'attach',
'create', 'replace' and 'split' to disable the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
@FransUrbo FransUrbo mentioned this issue May 29, 2015
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FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue May 30, 2015
@FransUrbo
Option to disable automatic EFI partitioning.
bb82544 
Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue May 30, 2015
@FransUrbo
Option to disable automatic EFI partitioning.
354d6d9 
Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 22, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
472f850 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 24, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
37622a6 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 24, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
bafec57 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 26, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
be7eea9 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 26, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
89fd91a 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Jul 31, 2015
@FransUrbo
3458: turbo/disable_autopart - Option to disable automatic EFI partit…
3216493 
…ioning.

Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
FransUrbo added a commit to FransUrbo/zfs that referenced this issue Sep 8, 2015
@FransUrbo
Option to disable automatic EFI partitioning.
aea9f90 
Sometimes it is desired to not have 'zpool' setup partitioning on
devices it uses for the pool. So allow '-o whole_disk={on,off}'
option to 'add', 'attach', 'create', 'replace' and 'split' to
disable or enable, respectivly, the automatic partitioning.

Signed-off-by: Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
Closes openzfs#94
Closes openzfs#719
Closes openzfs#1162
Closes openzfs#3452
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rlaager commented Oct 1, 2016

What's the problem here? Partition the disk with an msdos label and put ZFS on the partition.

@rlaager rlaager closed this as completed Oct 1, 2016
pcd1193182 pushed a commit to pcd1193182/zfs that referenced this issue Sep 26, 2023
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Bump serde_json from 1.0.85 to 1.0.93 in /cmd/zfs_object_agent (openz…
ab424fb 
…fs#719)

Bumps [serde_json](https://github.com/serde-rs/json) from 1.0.85 to 1.0.93.
- [Release notes](https://github.com/serde-rs/json/releases)
- [Commits](serde-rs/json@v1.0.85...v1.0.93)

---
updated-dependencies:
- dependency-name: serde_json
  dependency-type: direct:production
  update-type: version-update:semver-patch
...

Signed-off-by: dependabot[bot] <support@github.com>
Co-authored-by: dependabot[bot] <49699333+dependabot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
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