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Date:      Tue, 03 Sep 2019 14:07:16 -0000
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Chris Rees <chris@rees.space>
Cc:        Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346017 - in head: libexec/rc libexec/rc/rc.d share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <201904092108.x39L8ZCG062247@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <56770290-a7f2-07dc-3f5a-f9d5721db724@rees.space>

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> On 09/04/2019 20:59, Chris Rees wrote:
> > On 9 April 2019 20:55:07 BST, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
> >>> On 09/04/2019 21:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >>>> I think the trigger issue is:
> >>>> grep zfs /etc/rc.d/zvol
> >>>> rcvar="zfs_enable"
> >>>> required_modules="zfs"
> >>>>
> >>>> that module requires may be going south with the
> >>>> new code when the module is built into the kernel.
> >>> Maybe it's because the module's name is zfsctrl (for whatever reason)
> >> while the
> >>> module file is named zfs.ko.
> >> I suspect that could also lead to issues with the new code.
> >> It seems to be failing to detect that zfs is infact functional in the
> >> kernel,
> >> and blindly, or not so blindly, trying to load zfs,ko, which when you
> >> build
> >> it into the kernel you usually do so without any modules built, so
> >> there is
> >> no /boot/kernel/zfs.ko, and even if you did build it any attempt to
> >> load
> >> it would return an error.
> > Loading with it built in isn't a problem, as I showed earlier.
> >
> > Loading when it doesn't exist *is*.
> >
> > I'm torn.  Either we could revert this, or add a check to the required_modules function instead, which I think is the better solution.
> 
> Hang on,
> 
> [crees@pegasus]~% sudo kldload -n zfsctrl && echo yes
> yes

I think your testing the return value of sudo here?

> [crees@pegasus]~% find /boot -name zfsctrl\*
> [crees@pegasus]~%
> 
> I think that, rather than speculating, we should wait for Oliver to 
> confirm that this is actually the problem, because I still don't think 
> it is.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org





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