Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:55:49 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 289655] Add /usr/include/openzfs to support in-base and external applications Message-ID: <bug-289655-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=289655 Bug ID: 289655 Summary: Add /usr/include/openzfs to support in-base and external applications Product: Base System Version: 15.0-STABLE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: editor@callfortesting.org After many discussions on the Production User Calls, at the OpenZFS Summit, and online [1], it is hopefully time to consider /usr/include/openzfs in the FreeBSD base, an unobtrusive change that would hopefully never delay a release. To state the obvious, not all FreeBSD systems are configured with sources and there have been issues building against firmly or vaguely defined and versioned "libzfs", notably Samba which can support, but by default lacks support for "Volume Shadow Copies/Previous Versions" for Windows clients.[2] FreeBSD's in-base bectl(8) has the luxury of being built against the in-based sources, but serves as an example of how a utility might depend on OpenZFS headers. I will leave this to the experts to validate, but these files appear to be the most valuable as "libzfs" for use by in-base and external tools: contrib/openzfs/include/sys/avl.h contrib/openzfs/include/sys/avl_impl.h contrib/openzfs/include/sys/fs/zfs.h contrib/openzfs/include/sys/zio_priority.h contrib/openzfs/lib/libspl/include/libshare.h contrib/openzfs/lib/libspl/include/os/freebsd/sys/mnttab.h [1] https://despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2025-03-12-we-should-improve-libzfs-somewhat/ [2] https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251730 I welcome the subject matter experts to chime in as I am doing my best to relay the key points of a multi-year discussion. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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