Support #521
Updated by Daniel Curtis almost 10 years ago
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One of the many projects I had for my pi was installing ZFS. While Raspbian is a a good distro for beginners, I require a bit more control and up to date packages than Raspbian can provide, so I use Arch Linux. This is a guide on how I compiled support for ZFS on my Raspberry Pi.
*WARNING*: I have not yet finished this yet, so please treat this as experimental for the time being.
*NOTE*: I have found that installing the zfs-dkms package from the AUR is much easier than trying to roll a custom kernel just for ZFS.
h2. Prepare The System
* Update the system:
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pacman -Syu
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* Install base-devel, cmake, base-devel and linux-headers cmake packages
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pacman -S base-devel cmake linux-headers
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h2. Backup the Existing Kernel
It is always a good idea to backup the kernel before mucking around with it.
* Copy the original kernal
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cp /boot/kernel.img /boot/kernel.img.orig
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h2. Building the Specific Kernel
In order to build ZFS, a specific kernel is necessary; 3.17.6
* Install a few dependencies:
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pacman -S gcc make bc
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* Download and extract the 3.17.6 kernel
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sudo -s
cd /usr/src
wget -c https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.17.6.tar.xz
tar -xJf linux-3.17.6.tar.xz
cd linux-3.17.6
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* Prepare for compilation by running the following command:
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make mrproper
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* *Optionally*, the kernel can be customized with:
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make menuconfig
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* Copy the @.config@ file from the running kernel, if you want to start with the default Arch settings.
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zcat /proc/config.gz > .config
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* Compile the kernel
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make
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* Install modules
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make modules_install
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* Make the kernel image and copy the kernel to /boot directory
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make bzImage
cp -v arch/arm/boot/Image /boot/kernel.img
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* Make the initial RAM disk
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mkinitcpio -k 3.17.6 -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-3.17.6.img
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h2. Install yaourt
Yaourt isn't necessary, but makes managing AUR packages a lot easier.
* Download the packages for yaourt:
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cd /tmp
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/package-query/package-query.tar.gz && wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ya/yaourt/yaourt.tar.gz
tar xzf package-query.tar.gz
tar xzf yaourt.tar.gz
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#* Install package-query:
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cd ../package-query
makepkg -csi
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#* Install yaourt
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cd ../yaourt
makepkg -csi
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h2. Install the ZFS Git package from the Arch User Repository
* Install zfs-dkms: zfs-git
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yaourt zfs-dkms zfs-git
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* *NOTE*: Edit the PKGBUILD
#* And modify Follow the arch parameter steps to match compile the following: zfs-git package:
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arch=("i686" "x86_64" "armv6h") 1
n
n
y
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