Hi Zachary, 2011/8/8 Zachary Bedell <pendorbo...@gmail.com>: > It appears that existing Grub code already links against libzfs for the > benefit of find_root_device_from_libzfs and other functions in getroot.c. It > also appears that libzfs is not used outside this file. That linkage > surprises me a bit as I would have expected GPL Grub linked against CDDL > libzfs to create a problem.
Not really. This kind of use falls under the system library exception, see section 1 of the GPL. > Also libzfs is considered a private API and not intended to be linked >against, though admittedly what I propose (reading on-disk structures >directly) is arguably worse than accessing a private library. I don't think you can figure out the disks corresponding to a zpool just by reading disk structures. You can guess, but only the kernel knows for sure. The other API that is available to us is /dev/zfs. But is that device meant to be used directly? How stable is this interface? -- Robert Millan _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
