Could BlueBuild help with an alternative given the possible retirement of ZFS from Aurora

[Danathar]

There is a very real possibility that ZFS support will be removed from Aurora (see: ublue-os/aurora#1765).

Given this, could a BlueBuild solution provide a more streamlined way to integrate ZFS into a custom Aurora image? Specifically, I'm interested in whether BlueBuild can handle gated kernels, ensuring the OS only updates to kernel versions currently supported by OpenZFS, more effectively than the traditional Containerfile method (not even sure how I would do it there either, I'm not familiar with how the Universal Blue team are doing it)

Thanks!

Edit: Ok, looks like it may be a bit easier. Just use the ZFS akmod, but I'm still working out how to keep things from breaking when an unsupported kernel comes out.

[xynydev]

Specifically, I'm interested in whether BlueBuild can handle gated kernels, ensuring the OS only updates to kernel versions currently supported by OpenZFS, more effectively than the traditional Containerfile method

Not sure either how bigger projects do this either, but I wouldn't imagine that BlueBuild could do this more effectively than with a Containerfile setup. In the best case, it can be done the exact same way. That is unless such a feature were to be added to BlueBuild, which is not currently planned either lol.

[Danathar]

Yeah, I did some experimentation on a repo (with BlueBuild) with some AI just for fun to see what it could do, and that was exactly the direction it went. I broke the complicated script out of the Containerfile it wanted to shove a shell script into and moved it to another folder, then just referenced it.

I may be part of a small group seemingly who would love to see ZFS supported by Fedora based atomic images in an easier manner, so I understand why it wouldn’t be a priority feature for BlueBuild. Who knows? Maybe I don’t need to worry. It looks like the Universal Blue devs have pulled back for now on removing ZFS entirely. It is still just a discussion.

I’ll probably keep my Franken AI created repo just in case. It is a complicated Python monstrosity, but it does build and work LOL. It uses BlueBuild, but with an additional Containerfile and a mess of python scripts.

https://github.com/Danathar/Kinoite-ZFS