hi! so what is the status of this last feature pair? its the final bundle to get full support of modern openzfs to grub and since zfs on all major players (illumos/zol/freebsd) support this feature, its only question of time when someone will step on this missing piece;)
rgds, toomas > On 04.05.2015, at 9:49, Toomas Soome <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 04.05.2015, at 7:32, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> В Sun, 03 May 2015 22:47:40 +0300 >> Toomas Soome <[email protected]> пишет: >> >>> >>>> On 03.05.2015, at 22:23, Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> they do implement read support extensible dataset… instead of fixed DMU >>>>> types they dont specify type, making it possible to use fat zap objects >>>>> from bonus area. >>>>> >>>>> reference commit: >>>>> https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/2acef22db7808606888f8f92715629ff3ba555b9 >>>>> >>>> >>>> OK; just to be sure - there are several remaining uses of >>>> DMU_OT_DSL_DATASET and DMU_OT_DSL_DIR; are these intentional? >>> >>> >>> they *should* be ok. at least browsing and loading files from datasets >>> haven’t revealed other instances over the test time. but problem is, the >>> cases of zapify (when “normal” structure is wrapped as zap object) I have >>> seen, have been related to datasets using >128k recordsize, and its >>> possible some cases may have been missed - the grub zfs code and real zfs >>> code are not exactly easy to compare. at least so far I haven’t seen bugs >>> related to this nor received any reports. the basic symptom can be either >>> message about wrong type or “missing” directory entry in listing. >>> >> >> >> Can https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44448 be somehow related? > > without grub debug=zfs its impossible to say - guessing there is not really > helpful:) altho in general, feature check for label should generate error > message if pool has enabled features not supported by version of grub used > there. > > basically, my first suggestion to cases like that is to set debug=zfs in grub > and ask user to provide that debug output. > > rgds, > toomas > > _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
