pjd's ZFS 2008-07-27 patches against HEAD

[Steven Schlansker]

On Sep 15, 2008, at 4:55 PM, swell.k at gmail.com wrote:

> Steven Schlansker <stevenschlansker at berkeley.edu> writes:
>
>>  so I decided to try out -CURRENT with the
>> latest ZFS patches.
>
> Revisions before r182371 should work. Or you can try -CURRENT
> some later time when pjd commit[1] his work on latest zfs version.
>
> [1] http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20080829074738.GB3026
>
>>
>> I  was wondering if there is a newer patch out there (I don't see
>> anything in ~pjd/patches) or if anyone has had any luck getting the
>> patch to apply cleanly to the latest sources.
>
> http://pastebin.com/m30db3356
>
> I've just copied `+' lines from p4 and `-' lines from svn, nothing
> special. Try it at your own risk and don't blame me if you lose
> your precious data. ;) So far I haven't lost mine, although I have
> a bad experience with zfs metadata corruption in the past with
> and without pjd's patch.
>
> Another way is just collect and revert conflicting commits then apply
> the patch without modifying it. I've already lost count how many there
> are to revert.

Hm.  I think I'll just wait until it hits HEAD before upgrading - I  
like my data ;)
Thanks for the mailing list link - I hadn't found that before.   
Hopefully it will be committed soon!

Thanks,
Steven