Attached is a patch which allows Grub to detect and use libzfs on Linux as provided by the ZfsOnLinux project.
Most of this work was originally done by Darik Horn (dajhorn on GitHub) against the Grub 1.99 releases as patched by Ubuntu. I've forward ported the patches to trunk and separated some of the Ubuntu-specific stuff. These apply against trunk independent of the other ZFS work I've been doing. Changes include: configure.ac: * Add check for libspl to bring in Solaris Porting Library for Linux support. * Include reference to Linux ZFS's config header to get necessary defines for other ZFS headers on Linux. * Add checks for libavl, libefi, libunicode, libzpool -- Linux decomposes these libraries which are lumped into libzfs on other platforms. getroot.c: * Add ref to mnttab.h from libspl to allow getextmntent to work on Linux. * Change the order of the grub_find_root_device_from_mountinfo vs find_root_device_from_libzfs calls so that libzfs runs first, falling down to mountinfo if zfs isn't detected. * Scan /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab in addition to /etc/mnttab to discover mounted filesystems in grub_find_zpool_from_dir. grub.d/10_linux.in: * Detect ZFS root and include reference to zfsinfo.mod if needed. * Detect the bootfs dataset from the zpool attribute. * Adjust kernel parameters to omit root= and replace with boot=zfs and reference to the detected bootfs if available. * If bootfs isn't available from the pool, delegates to detection (hopefully) present in the initrd. These patches have been in use by a number of folks using ZfsOnLinux for some time, and they've been robust on those systems. I've tried to ensure the changes won't impact non-Linux platforms, though I'm not sure I trust my knowledge of autoconf enough to be positive there are no side effects. The attached patch is intended for trunk, but I also have a version rolled for the 1.99 branch if that would be useful. Best regards, Zac Bedell
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