Zpool doesn't boot anymore after FreeBSD 12.1

[Cassiano Peixoto]

Hi Toomas,

Thank you for this patch. Can I know when it will be MFCed? I'd like to try.


Hi!

Please try 366951:) I think, it should get things better for you.

rgds,
toomas

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 3:04 PM Cassiano Peixoto <peixotocassiano at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Sergey,
>
> I agree with you. The best thing is to revert the commit on zfsloader.
> Many people didn't realize this issue yet, but they will run into a big
> problem soon.
>
> On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 2:41 PM Sergey V. Dyatko <sergey.dyatko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2020 16:42:16 +0300
>> Andriy Gapon <avg at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>>
>> > On 22/10/2020 16:39, Cassiano Peixoto wrote:
>> > > Hi Andriy,
>> > >
>> > > I've just tried copying my zfsloader from 11.2-STABLE (R350026) to
>> FreeBSD
>> > > 12.1 and 12.2 (STABLE) and fixed the issue.
>> > >
>> > > I also tried to use zfsloader of 11.3 but didn't work and the same
>> issue
>> > > happened.
>> > >
>> > > So it seems that something has changed on zfsloader after 11.2 that
>> brings
>> > > this issue.
>> > >
>> > > My question is: Should it be expected or is it a bug to be fixed?
>> > >
>> >
>> > In my opinion it's a bug.
>> > zfsloader should not require that disks must be partitioned.
>> >
>>
>> +1
>> That's why I have terribly outdated 13-CURRENT on bunch of servers and
>> can't
>> update them.
>>
>> Most of them look like this:
>> [tiger at st25]:~>zpool status
>>   pool: st25
>>  state: ONLINE
>>   scan: none requested
>> config:
>>
>>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>>         st25       ONLINE       0     0     0
>>           mirror-0  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada0    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>           mirror-1  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada2    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada3    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>           mirror-2  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada4    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada5    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>           mirror-3  ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada6    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>             ada7    ONLINE       0     0     0
>>
>> errors: No known data errors
>>
>> They haven't separate boot device and have from 7 to 30+ Tb of data that I
>> can't backup anywhere for re-install server with disk partitioning. Some
>> time
>> ago I managed to get aroud this reverting 2 commits (  r342151 + don't
>> remember revision) but then there where some other improvements after
>> which I
>> lost the opportunity to revert this commits
>>
>> --
>> wbr, Sergey
>>
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