zfs issue with 32bit on arm - debian Buster

[heapxor]

Hello,
i made work zfs on armbian ubuntu focal; Linux bananapi 5.4.88-sunxi; zfs-dkm 2.0x

Trying to achieve similar functionality on armbian debian buster; while installing zfs-dkms its aborting with message>
Ok, aborting, since ZFS is not designed for 32-bit kernels.

Any idea what kind of issue it might be? Thanks

root@bananapi:~# apt install --reinstall zfs-dkms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 6 not upgraded. Need to get 2,231 kB of archives. After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports/contrib armhf zfs-dkms all 2.0.3-1~bpo10+1 [2,231 kB] Fetched 2,231 kB in 1s (3,027 kB/s) Preconfiguring packages ... (Reading database ... 69467 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to unpack .../zfs-dkms_2.0.3-1~bpo10+1_all.deb ... Unpacking zfs-dkms (2.0.3-1~bpo10+1) over (2.0.3-1~bpo10+1) ... Setting up zfs-dkms (2.0.3-1~bpo10+1) ... Ok, aborting, since ZFS is not designed for 32-bit kernels. Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.133+deb10u1) ... update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.4.88-sunxi update-initramfs: Converting to u-boot format root@bananapi:~# uname -a Linux bananapi 5.4.88-sunxi #21.05.1 SMP Thu May 6 20:18:43 UTC 2021 armv7l GNU/Linux root@bananapi:~#

[rincebrain]

At least on Debian, installing the ZFS packages from apt pops an interactive "danger: installing on 32-bit, continue y/n", and probably defaults to n if non-interactive.

More generally, problems with the distro-provided packages should probably go against that distro's bugtracker for the packages.

[heapxor]

@rincebrain you were right, thank you..

echo "zfs-dkms zfs-dkms/stop-build-for-32bit-kernel boolean false" | debconf-set-selections

fixed