I’ve been meaning to get back into the arch space, since Fedoras lack of ZFS on Root has been frustrating me. I’ll carry this torch as far as I can on my own, but I’m going to need a couple days to find some time to get arch installed.
Dragging @AnotherDev in because he said he was interested.
Let’s switch gears to manjaro instead of arch because … new users would appreciate this than arch folks. About half the arch folks will have a philosophical objection to this approach to recovery, I bet.
So do we want to go off of manjaro or arch? I’m going to need to build an installer iso for both, since the antergos zfs package is currently borked and the maintainer isn’t responding quickly enough.
I think step one is prolly manually installing zfs and automating the mounting of / to be one of the snapshots, and making a shellscript or something to both create a snap and update the boot menu?
The installer will be easy to update once the proof of concept works. Idk if there are any landmines we might encounter with zfs on / manualledit: and prolly manjaro or antergos is fine. Patching in zfs manually is NBD if we have to tho.
That Manjaro installer is a bit of a turd, if you have any partitions on the disk you want to use it crashes. Noticed this with Solus too fwiw. Anyways, nuking the partitions on the disk and rebooting works… but meh.