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authorJörg Thalheim <joerg@thalheim.io>2017-09-13 00:28:42 +0100
committerFranz Pletz <fpletz@fnordicwalking.de>2017-09-15 17:59:37 +0200
commit1ecf3e862f40fa87afdc7492282e48f4889f02ef (patch)
treef141f7ed31ad3196887faeccce1bc17ea3474bfe /nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems
parentf4dfa30d24caa2260e43f02cd1bdcd6379799c99 (diff)
zfsUnstable: init at 2017-09-12
Diffstat (limited to 'nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems')
-rw-r--r--nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/zfs.nix19
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/zfs.nix b/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/zfs.nix
index f300091b11ee..145fae432c65 100644
--- a/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/zfs.nix
+++ b/nixos/modules/tasks/filesystems/zfs.nix
@@ -24,7 +24,11 @@ let
kernel = config.boot.kernelPackages;
- packages = {
+ packages = if config.boot.zfs.enableUnstable then {
+ spl = kernel.splUnstable;
+ zfs = kernel.zfsUnstable;
+ zfsUser = pkgs.zfsUnstable;
+ } else {
spl = kernel.spl;
zfs = kernel.zfs;
zfsUser = pkgs.zfs;
@@ -58,6 +62,19 @@ in
options = {
boot.zfs = {
+ enableUnstable = mkOption {
+ type = types.bool;
+ default = false;
+ description = ''
+ Use the unstable zfs package. This might be an option, if the latest
+ kernel is not yet supported by a published release of ZFS. Enabling
+ this option will install a development version of ZFS on Linux. The
+ version will have already passed an extensive test suite, but it is
+ more likely to hit an undiscovered bug compared to running a released
+ version of ZFS on Linux.
+ '';
+ };
+
extraPools = mkOption {
type = types.listOf types.str;
default = [];