On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 6:25 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> wrote:
On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 16:56 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:14 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna@redhat.com> wrote:
As another data point, Debian currently carries a patch[1] which allows us to enable the ZFS driver without installing the ZFS packages in the build environment: this is necessary because, due to its license, ZFS is kept outside of the main Debian repository.
Being able to use something like
-Dprog_zfs=/sbin/zfs -Dprog_zfspool=/sbin/zfspool
to achieve the same result would allow us to drop that patch, which I would be *extremely* happy about :)
The way I solved *that* specific problem was to use zfs-fuse at build-time and have runtime work with either implementation. That should work for you too, since Debian has zfs-fuse in main.
This sounds intriguing. Can you please point me to the code?
I build libvirt for Debian/Ubuntu using a modified version of the upstream spec file (if y'all are interested, I can upstream those modifications so we could build and test that way in CI too), but here's what I did: * https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596a6/... * https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596a6/... * https://pagure.io/libvirt-deb/blob/90d9373670564341503f768880e996f01da596a6/... For work, we *only* want to use ZoL at runtime, but this can be done where zfs-fuse could be a valid candidate too. It's not terribly difficult to translate this into debian/control goop. :) -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth!