Install ZFS in the Raspberry Pi image - #2216
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The umbrelos-base-pi stage does not install ZFS, while umbrelos-base (amd64 and generic arm64) does. hardware:raid therefore cannot initialise on Pi hardware and Storage Manager is unavailable there. The Raspberry Pi archive configured by setup-raspberrypi.sh ships an OpenZFS build compatible with the rpi kernels installed in this stage, so DKMS can build against linux-headers-rpi-*.
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Closes #2217
Summary
umbrelos-base-pidoes not install ZFS, whileumbrelos-base(amd64 and generic arm64) does. As a resulthardware:raidcannot initialise on Pi hardware and Storage Manager is unavailable there, including on Pi boards that do have more than one internal NVMe slot.The Raspberry Pi archive already configured by
setup-raspberrypi.shships an OpenZFS build compatible with the rpi kernels installed in that stage, so this needs no new apt source.Current behaviour
On umbrelOS 2.0 Beta 1 (Pi 5),
umbreldlogs this on every boot:zpoolandzfsare not present and/sys/module/zfsdoes not exist. The RAID module starts, expects ZFS, and fails.Verified on hardware
Installing the two packages manually on a Pi 5 running kernel
6.18.39+rpt-rpi-2712:DKMS builds cleanly for both kernel flavours:
The
zfs_arc_minandl2arc_exclude_specialerrors above stop once the module is present.Scope
This only closes the ZFS gap between the Pi and generic images. It does not change which transports are eligible for a pool, so external and USB drives remain excluded exactly as they are today.