It is important that zed run in all cases where a pool (with real disks)
exists. This will only get more important over time, as the fault
management code is improved. (Intel is actively working on this.)

It seems reasonable to not start zed in a container, though.

For the second piece, only running zed if a pool exists... Did you have
a specific implementation in mind?

Long-term, there are some questions about whether zed should be in charge of 
importing pools. If zed were to be the thing that imports pools, that creates a 
problem if you don't want zed to run all the time. I don't think I came up with 
the idea of zed orchestrating pool imports, but I discussed it here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/1571761

There's also this work-in-progress pull request upstream that may be a better 
approach:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/4943

Long-term, if upstream was to accept something like that pull request,
and make its zpool import unit template Wants=zed.service, would that
accomplish all the goals?

I'm not saying we have to implement the whole thing now. I just want to
make sure the fixes now are compatible with a long-term plan. I also
want to make sure that upstream's long-term plans are compatible with
Ubuntu's needs.

** Changed in: zfs-linux (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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