[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#871619: Packaging

[Antonio Russo]

On 10/12/17 06:12, Fabian Grünbichler wrote:
> 
> I would also suggest cherry-picking/backporting the following two
> upstream PRs on top of 0.7.2:
> 
> #6616: send/recv compatibility with 0.6.5.x [1]
> #6695: receive_freeobjects() skips freeing some objects [2]
> 
> the first (DISCLAIMER: written by me :P) fixes an incompatibility
> between zfs send on 0.7 and zfs recv on 0.6.5 which would otherwise lead
> to lots of never-terminating, 100% cpu usage zfs recv threads on
> not-yet-upgraded replication/backup targets.
> 
> the second fixes a potential inconsistency when receiving incremental
> streams, which would cause subsequent receives to fail.
> 
> both are slated for inclusion in 0.7.3 ([3]).
> 
> 1: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6616
> 2: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6695
> 3: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/projects/12
>

Just as a follow up, all of these proposed stable additions are
currently under review for inclusion into the stable branch by
upstream [1]. I've included them tentatively in the
repositories [2,3].

1: https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/pull/6752
2: https://github.com/aerusso/pkg-zfsonlinux-zfs
3: https://github.com/aerusso/pkg-zfsonlinux-spl