1.7 KiB
New OS Layout
I wanted a new layout for macOS and Fedora to share the same home directory, so here I am using ZFS on Linux and ZFS on macOS side by side.
Experiment 1: Shared ZFS Home
I set up a very typical ZFS mount with encryption and compression, then quickly came to realise that I can't mount at different folders for each OS separately without using legacy mounts. So, I resorted to symlinks:
~
❯ ls -lah /home
total 12K
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 4.0K Oct 30 15:59 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 4.0K Oct 30 16:45 ..
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 19 Oct 30 01:26 ambrose -> /dpool/home/ambrose
drwx------. 14 cooladmin cooladmin 4.0K Oct 30 02:13 cooladmin
~
❯ sudo zfs list
[sudo] password for ambrose:
NAME USED AVAIL REFER MOUNTPOINT
dpool 11.7G 89.0G 520K /dpool
dpool/home 11.7G 89.0G 456K /dpool/home
dpool/home/ambrose 11.7G 89.0G 11.7G /dpool/home/ambrose
tankpool 14.9G 3.50T 858K /tankpool
[other tankpool mounts omitted]
This worked fine, until I realised that Fedora's tool toolbox
doesn't deal with symlinked home directories. Instead, because it resolves the canonical folder of the home directory, it does not properly mount /home/ambrose
into /home/ambrose
but mounts /dpool/home/ambrose
into /dpool/home/ambrose
Also, I found that Fedora Silverblue has a symlink from /home
to /var/home
where the actual home folder is mounted, following conventions. This is neat, I'm going to see if I can use this as a mount point.
Experiment 2: Moved Mountpoint to /var/home
TODO