Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-23 Thread Richard Laager
On 10/19/19 4:43 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > I don't have much to say about most of this, but noticed this bit: > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:48:42PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: >> The same implementation could (and if I have my way, will) be used to >> provide a features=grub mask. This would be

Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-19 Thread Colin Watson
I don't have much to say about most of this, but noticed this bit: On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 09:48:42PM -0500, Richard Laager wrote: > The same implementation could (and if I have my way, will) be used to > provide a features=grub mask. This would be used for the boot pool > (bpool) to limit it to

Re: ZFS feature flags

2019-10-17 Thread Richard Laager
TL;DR: I think the installer should default to all features, so I think the current behavior is correct. I would support the installer gaining an option to default to a subset of features (e.g. using the future features=portable mechanism) to make the pool more portable. If the desktop GUI

ZFS feature flags

2019-10-16 Thread Paul Ciarlo
It seems the ZFS-on-Linux team has taken the initiative and added a few pool features, that, when enabled, break write support on the other implementation of ZFS that I'm aware of, and, are enabled by default upon pool creation or upgrade unless explicitly disabled or the -n flag is specified.