Re: Zpool doesn't boot anymore after FreeBSD 12.1

> On 22. Oct 2020, at 23:29, Cassiano Peixoto <peixotocassiano_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Toomas,
> 
> Thank you for this patch. Can I know when it will be MFCed? I'd like to try.


MFC will take a bit because I need to bring it together with asize updates, so we would need to do a bit of cherry-picking and testing.

rgds,
toomas


> 
> 
>> 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 That's why I have terribly outdated 13-CURRENT on bunch of servers and can't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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