On 18.09.2023 19:21, Mark Millard wrote:
On Sep 18, 2023, at 15:51, Mark Millard <mark...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote on
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2023 13:26:56 UTC :
block_cloning feature is marked as READONLY_COMPAT. It should not
require any special handling from the boot code.

 From stand/libsa/zfs/zfsimpl.c but adding a comment about the
read-only compatibility status of each entry:

/*
* List of ZFS features supported for read
*/
static const char *features_for_read[] = {
        "com.datto:bookmark_v2", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.datto:encryption", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.datto:resilver_defer", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.delphix:bookmark_written", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:device_removal", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:embedded_data", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:extensible_dataset", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:head_errlog", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:hole_birth", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.delphix:obsolete_counts", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.delphix:spacemap_histogram", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.delphix:spacemap_v2", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.delphix:zpool_checkpoint", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.intel:allocation_classes", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "com.joyent:multi_vdev_crash_dump", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "com.klarasystems:vdev_zaps_v2", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.freebsd:zstd_compress", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.illumos:lz4_compress", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.illumos:sha512", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.illumos:skein", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.open-zfs:large_blocks", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.openzfs:blake3", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        "org.zfsonlinux:allocation_classes", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE yes
        "org.zfsonlinux:large_dnode", // READ-ONLY COMPATIBLE no
        NULL
};

So it appears that the design is that both "no" and "yes" ones
that are known to be supported are listed and anything else is
supposed to lead to rejection until explicitly added as
known-compatibile.

I don't think so. I think somebody by mistake added first featured that should not be here, and then others continued this irrelevant routine. My own development server/builder is happily running latest main with ZFS root without any patches and with block cloning not only enabled, but even active. So as I have told, it is not needed:

mav@srv:/root# zpool get all | grep clon
mavlab  bcloneused                     20.5M                          -
mavlab  bclonesaved                    20.9M                          -
mavlab  bcloneratio                    2.02x                          -
mavlab  feature@block_cloning          active                         local

Somebody should go through the list and clean in up from read-compatible features and document it, unless there are some features that were re-qualified at some point, I haven't checked if it could be.

This matches up with stand/libsa/zfs/zfsimpl.c 's:

static int
nvlist_check_features_for_read(nvlist_t *nvl)
{
...
        rc = nvlist_find(nvl, ZPOOL_CONFIG_FEATURES_FOR_READ,
            DATA_TYPE_NVLIST, NULL, &features, NULL);

Take a note it reads ZPOOL_CONFIG_FEATURES_FOR_READ. Same time features declared as READONLY_COMPAT are stored in FEATURES_FOR_WRITE, that boot loader does not even care.

I do not know if vfs.zfs.bclone_enabled=0 leads the loader
to see vs. not-see a "com.fudosecurity:block_cloning".

bclone_enabled=0 block copy_file_range() usage, that should keep the feature enabled, but not active. It could be related if the feature would be in FEATURES_FOR_WRITE, but here and now it is not.

It appears that 2 additions afeter opebzfas-2.1-freebsd are
missing from the above list:

com.fudosecurity:block_cloning
org.openzfs:zilsaxattr

Nothing of ZIL is required for read-only import. So no, it is also not needed.

--
Alexander Motin

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