Re: ZFS problems

From: Xin Li <delphij_at_delphij.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:37:47 -0800
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On 02/27/13 16:33, Glen Barber wrote:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 07:21:39PM -0500, Derrick Dantavious
> Edwards wrote:
>>>>> [...] I updated sources a couple of days ago and when I
>>>>> rebooted to continue to the upgrade process I received
>>>>> errors when I attempted to mount zfs filesystem. The error
>>>>> looked like this.
>>>>> 
>>>>> zpool mount -a
>>>>> 
>>>>> internal error: Invalid arugment
>>> 
>>> [...] the Kernel and the ZFS tools in userland need to be
>>> updated at the same time.
>>> 
>>> Boot back into the old kernel and (cd /usr/src/cddl && make
>>> install) to update the tools to a compatible version.
>>> 
> 
> In mid-February, zpool version was upgraded to include
> lz4_compress.  My understanding was that changing from the
> OpenSolaris ZFS version number scheme (i.e., "v28") to what we have
> on -CURRENT (i.e., "5000") was so that we can track crossing the
> point of no return with pool version upgrades.
> 
> On my system, vfs.zfs.version.spa has been at 5000 since this
> original change.
> 
> Is my understanding incorrect?  Or should vfs.zfs.version.spa be 
> incremented with major, non-backwards-compatible changes?

That's incorrect.  In theory vfs.zfs.version.spa will never ever
change in the future, and all new features will be denoted by feature
flags, which is an extensible way of representing features and whether
they are compatible with the running system.

Cheers,
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