[Pkg-zfsonlinux-devel] Bug#1036364: zfsutils-linux: please remove GPT creation bug

[Elliott Mitchell]

Package: zfsutils-linux
Version: 2.0.3-9+deb11u1

Would the Debian ZFS maintainers be so kind as to remove the GPT creation
bug from zfsutils-linux?

Full details are at: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/94

The issue is simply zpool's create/replace and other subcommands try to
unconditionally create GPT labels on anything resembling a whole device.
Unfortunately whatever algorithm is used for detecting whole devices is
poor and generates almost as many false positives and false negatives as
true positives and true negatives.

Attempts to get the OpenZFS project to address this seem to have met with
deaf ears.  Notably this was reported as a bug a decade ago, but nothing
has happened (notice the dates on the upstream bug report).

At this point I hope the Debian maintainers are willing to patch out this
bug.  Hopefully maintainers of other projects will follow and upstream
might notice they're approaching the losing end of a fork.

This has been a problem for so long that the workarounds are headed
towards being well-established techniques.


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