I've updated the patch for 0.7.9-3 thought there where no changes that prevented the last patch from working.
Please commit the patch to enable sysvinit for ZFS.
diff -Nru zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/changelog zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/changelog --- zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/changelog 2018-05-28 04:22:02.000000000 -0600 +++ zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/changelog 2018-06-03 07:12:43.000000000 -0600 @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +zfs-linux (0.7.9-3.1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium + + * Non-maintainer upload. + * Add sysvinit scripts. + + -- Chris Dos <ch...@chrisdos.com> Sun, 03 Jun 2018 07:12:43 -0600 + zfs-linux (0.7.9-3) unstable; urgency=medium [ Antonio Russo ] diff -Nru zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/patches/1004-zed-service-bindir.patch zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/patches/1004-zed-service-bindir.patch --- zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/patches/1004-zed-service-bindir.patch 2018-05-16 07:38:12.000000000 -0600 +++ zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/patches/1004-zed-service-bindir.patch 2018-06-03 07:08:42.000000000 -0600 @@ -1,11 +1,14 @@ -Description: Fix the path to the zed binary on the systemd unit. +Description: Fix the path to the zed binary on the systemd unit and + the sysvinit script. We install zed into /usr/sbin manually meanwhile the upstream default is installing it into /sbin. Ubuntu packages also install zed to /usr/sbin, but they ship their own zfs-zed unit. Author: Carlos Alberto Lopez <clo...@igalia.com> Author: Fabian Grünbichler <f.gruenbich...@proxmox.com> +Author: Chris Dos <ch...@chrisdos.com> Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/849813 +Bug-Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/826994 Forwarded: no --- a/etc/systemd/system/zfs-zed.service.in +++ b/etc/systemd/system/zfs-zed.service.in @@ -18,3 +21,13 @@ Restart=on-abort [Install] +--- a/etc/init.d/zfs-functions.in ++++ b/etc/init.d/zfs-functions.in +@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ + + # Paths to what we need + ZFS="@sbindir@/zfs" +-ZED="@sbindir@/zed" ++ZED="/usr/sbin/zed" + ZPOOL="@sbindir@/zpool" + ZPOOL_CACHE="@sysconfdir@/zfs/zpool.cache" diff -Nru zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/rules zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/rules --- zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/rules 2018-05-17 10:11:36.000000000 -0600 +++ zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/rules 2018-06-03 07:10:41.000000000 -0600 @@ -114,6 +114,26 @@ chmod a-x $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/etc/zfs/zfs-functions chmod a-x $(CURDIR)/debian/tmp/etc/default/zfs +override_dh_installinit: + @# Install the /etc/init.d/zfs-import script. + dh_installinit -pzfsutils-linux --name=zfs-import \ + --no-restart-on-upgrade --no-start + + @# Install the /etc/init.d/zfs-mount script. + dh_installinit -pzfsutils-linux --name=zfs-mount \ + --no-restart-on-upgrade --no-start + + @# Install the /etc/init.d/zfs-share script. + dh_installinit -pzfsutils-linux --name=zfs-share \ + --no-restart-on-upgrade --no-start + + @# Add a dummy (link to /dev/null) for zfs-import.service + ln -s /dev/null $(CURDIR)/debian/zfsutils-linux/lib/systemd/system/zfs-import.service + + @# Install the ZED init file. + dh_installinit -pzfs-zed --name=zfs-zed \ + --no-restart-on-upgrade --no-start + override_dh_dkms: dh_dkms -V $(DEB_VERSION_UPSTREAM) diff -Nru zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfsutils-linux.install zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfsutils-linux.install --- zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfsutils-linux.install 2018-05-28 04:07:08.000000000 -0600 +++ zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfsutils-linux.install 2018-06-03 07:10:41.000000000 -0600 @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ ../tree/zfsutils-linux/* / etc/default/zfs etc/zfs/zfs-functions +etc/init.d/zfs-import +etc/init.d/zfs-mount etc/zfs/zpool.d/ lib/systemd/system-preset/ lib/systemd/system/zfs-import-cache.service diff -Nru zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfs-zed.install zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfs-zed.install --- zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfs-zed.install 2018-05-16 07:38:12.000000000 -0600 +++ zfs-linux-0.7.9/debian/zfs-zed.install 2018-06-03 07:10:41.000000000 -0600 @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ etc/zfs/zed.d/* +etc/init.d/zfs-zed +etc/init.d/zfs-share lib/systemd/system/zfs-zed.service usr/lib/*/zfs/zed.d/* usr/sbin/zed