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Date:      Tue, 14 Dec 2021 22:10:18 -0500
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d/openzfs-2.1-freebsd vs. openzfs-2.1-linux vs. FreeBSD main [so: 14]: edonr status
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On 14.12.2021 22:00, Mark Millard wrote:
> On 2021-Dec-14, at 17:35, Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 14.12.2021 20:21, Mark Millard wrote:
>>> I presume that because of FreeBSD's releng/13.0 and stable/13 (and
>>> releng/13.? futures) that:
>>>
>>> /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d/openzfs-2.1-freebsd
>>>
>>> will never have edonr added to the file. Sound right?
>>
>> FreeBSD stable/13 is tracking still alive upstream zfs-2.1-release
>> branch.  It is still updated periodically, but primarily with bug fixes.
> 
> I infer from the above that:
> 
> /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d/openzfs-2.1-freebsd
> 
> is unlikely to be changed to be inaccurate relative to releng/13.0 , at
> least as long as 13.0 is a supported FreeBSD release, but probably for
> all the releng/13.? .

Yes, that would be my personal assumption.

>>> Is there going to be a /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d/openzfs-2.*-freebsd*
>>> that has edonr as well (instead of using a openzfs-2.1-linux file for
>>> such)? If yes, when does the file show up? Does main get drafts of the
>>> file over time until there is a releng/14.0 that would have the final
>>> version?
>>
>> FreeBSD main though tracks openzfs master branch, and as a moving target
>> it has no compatibility definitions.  I'd expect by the time of FreeBSD
>> stable/14 branching there to be some new openzfs branch it could switch
>> to, but so far AFAIK there were no specific announcements yet.  And
>> enabled edonr is a step toward not differentiating FreeBSD and Linux
>> compatibility settings any more.
> 
> I infer from the above that it will be much closer to releng/14.0 's
> time frame before there will be an additional:
> 
> /usr/share/zfs/compatibility.d/openzfs-*-freebsd*
> 
> ( or a name that does not even mention freebsd or linux but
> applies to releng/14.0 ). Good to know.

Right.  There would be nothing bad to have more openzfs releases before
stable/14 branching though, just not after.  We'll need to coordinate
that with upstream.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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