On 3/13/18, Eli Schwartz via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> wrote:
Like I said, this can be done from any system which has pacman and mkinitcpio available. That means:
1) Arch Linux 2) Gentoo, which has a pacman package and IIRC also provides mkinitcpio as an option alongside dracut. 3) Any Linux distribution if you have chrooted into the bootstrap image 4) Windows (or any operating system, really), by using a virtual machine
Certainly, anything is *possible* if you put in enough work. But making something annoyingly difficult to do is, as I said, hardly a generic solution.
True and Alpine Linux supports (3.5) ZFS on install which I didn't confirm because, like I said, I don't use ZFS on Linux. I mean that if Arch ZFS developers want to, they can leverage work from other distros. I guess it's a good thing Arch has no installer or otherwise there might be a heated debate whether ZFS should be an option :).