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

[Fabian Grünbichler]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 06:51:05AM -0400, Antonio Russo wrote:
> 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
> 

and there has now been a 0.7.3 release incorporating those and other
fixes:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.7.3