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