On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:20:38AM -0700, Alan Somers wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Kurt Lidl <l...@pix.net> wrote: > > Removing the ability to run different zpools on top of a zvol is > > a significant reduction in functionality of the entire system, and a huge > > violation of the POLA. > > The thing is, it never really worked in the first place. Panics and > deadlocks are so frequent that I don't think the feature was usable > for anybody.
I actively use this every day and will be making even more use of it in the very near future. I haven't had a single kernel panic. I have had deadlocks at shutdown, but since it's a laptop and I'm sitting right in front of it, it's not a big deal. I'd say fix the underlying problem, don't prevent people from getting work done. > > > > > At the very least, can you not add a sysctl that allows the > > dangerous behavior (even if it defaults to off)? Myself > > and certainly others rely on having being able to use a zpool > > installed into a zvol for hosting bhyve virtual machines. > > Your use case should be unaffected. The guest has a different ZFS > instance than the host, so it should work just fine. Please let me > know if you have problems. -- Shawn Webb HardenedBSD GPG Key ID: 0x6A84658F52456EEE GPG Key Fingerprint: 2ABA B6BD EF6A F486 BE89 3D9E 6A84 658F 5245 6EEE
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