Further note - Re: CFT for vendor openzfs

Matthew Macy mmacy at freebsd.org
Wed Jul 8 21:39:01 UTC 2020


Do NOT zpool upgrade unless you are willing to live without the
ability to ever rollback to the legacy zfs kmod.

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 2:31 PM Matthew Macy <mmacy at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Checkout updated HEAD:
> % git clone https://github.com/mattmacy/networking.git -b
> projects/openzfs_vendor freebsd
>
> Checkout updated openzfs in to sys/contrib:
> % git clone https://github.com/zfsonfreebsd/ZoF.git -b
> projects/openzfs_vendor freebsd/sys/contrib/openzfs
>
> Build world and kernel with whatever your usual configuration is.
> Where possible the openzfs kmod is backward compatible with the cmd
> utils in HEAD so common operations work with existing tools and the
> new kmod. In the projects/openzfs_vendor branch of ZoF ozfs libraries
> are backward compatible with the zfs kmod in HEAD. Although ideally
> one would test this in a separate boot environment, the
> interoperability should allow one to rollback without too much
> difficulty.
>
> Thanks in advance for your time.
> -M


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