[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#888736: Bug#888736: zfs-dkms: assign a seperate group zfsadm to /dev/zfs

[Richard Laager]

On 01/29/2018 05:10 AM, Hans Freitag wrote:
> I would like to have /dev/zfs assigned to a seperate group zfsadm. The device
> is currently assigned to the group disk.

As of 0.7.0, ZFS on Linux supports delegated administration. That is,
permission checks are handled by the ZFS module, not by the permissions
of /dev/zfs.

After 0.7.0, the permissions on /dev/zfs should be set to 0666.
Obviously the group no longer matters, and so it can be root.

See:
https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/releases/tag/zfs-0.7.0

-- 
Richard