Debian Bookworm Root on ZFS - caveat unmerged system dirs
flaki opened this issue · 2 comments
flaki commented
From this issue, it looks like at some point I broke the system when I moved it to ZFS root. I believe it was either:
debootstrap bookworm /mnt
did not correctly set up merged system dirs (e.g. symlinking/bin
to/usr/bin
)- or I have followed "An alternative to using
debootstrap
is to copy the entirety of a working system into the new ZFS root." without making sure that symlinks were copied verbatim hence breaking the system in future updates
Not exactly sure which one happened but might be worth further investigating and noting this in the doc.
mbiebl commented
Which version of debootstrap did you use? Is it one that defaults to --merged-usr?
gmelikov commented
Hmm, I've installed it several years ago, it's ok for me
$ ls /bin -dl
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 May 17 2022 /bin -> usr/bin
Maybe we should remove An alternative to using debootstrap is to copy the entirety of a working system into the new ZFS root.
part entirely.