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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2019 12:49:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
To:        Chris Rees <chris@rees.space>
Cc:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org>, Chris Rees <crees@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346017 - in head: libexec/rc libexec/rc/rc.d share/man/man5
Message-ID:  <201904091949.x39Jnagv061870@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
In-Reply-To: <11ce03d7-8ebc-2b08-baa8-3fb31a29b3b2@rees.space>

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> Hi Rod,
> 
> On 09/04/2019 19:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> On 9 April 2019 14:13:54 BST, "O. Hartmann" <ohartmann@walstatt.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sun, 7 Apr 2019 18:31:45 +0000 (UTC)
> >>> Chris Rees <crees@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Author: crees (doc,ports committer)
> >>>> Date: Sun Apr  7 18:31:45 2019
> >>>> New Revision: 346017
> >>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/346017
> >>>>
> >>>> Log:
> >>>>    Remove now unnecessary kldstat check before attempting to load
> >>> modules.
> >>>>    Since r233109, kldload has the -n option, which silently ignores
> >>> options
> >>>>    that are already loaded.
> >>>>
> >>>>   
> >>> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2018-December/003899.html
> >>>>    Note that this script no longer reports if the module is already
> >>> loaded,
> >>>>    but it could be argued this wasn't particularly useful information.
> >>>>
> >>>>    PR:			docs/234248
> >>>>    Reviewed by:		bcr (docs), kib, rgrimes (visual)
> >>>>    Approved by:		jilles
> >>>>    Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18670
> >>>>
> >>>> Modified:
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/abi
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/bthidd
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/cfumass
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/kld
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/mdconfig
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/mdconfig2
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/mountcritremote
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.d/syscons
> >>>>    head/libexec/rc/rc.subr
> >>>>    head/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5
> >>>>
> >>>> Modified: head/libexec/rc/rc.d/abi
> >>>>
> >>> ==============================================================================
> >>
> >> {Snip}
> >>
> >>
> >>> It seems this patch breaks ZFS if ZFS is built-in kernel!
> >>>
> >>> Having ZFS as kernel built-in leaves the system not mounting ANY(!) ZFS
> >>> volume
> >>> at boot time, rendering servers unusable.
> >>> Mounting ZFS filesystems with "zfs mount -a" bring back the ZFS
> >>> filesystems as
> >>> expected.
> >>>
> >> Are you sure it's this causing that?  Please try reverting it.
> > I think the trigger issue is:
> > grep zfs /etc/rc.d/zvol
> > rcvar="zfs_enable"
> > required_modules="zfs"
> >
> > that module requires may be going south with the
> > new code when the module is built into the kernel.
> 
> 
> I wondered that, but I don't think so.
> 
> [crees@pegasus]~% kldstat -v |head
> Id Refs Address??????????? Size???? Name
>  ?1?? 30 0xffffffff80200000 11df240? kernel (/boot/kernel.PEGASUS/kernel)
>  ??????? Contains modules:
>  ??????????????? Id Name
>  ??????????????? 227 newreno
>  ??????????????? 215 if_lo
>  ??????????????? 229 ipsec
>  ??????????????? 228 mld
>  ??????????????? 226 igmp
>  ??????????????? 201 elf32
> [crees@pegasus]~% sudo kldload ipsec
> kldload: can't load ipsec: module already loaded or in kernel
> [crees@pegasus]~% sudo kldload -n ipsec
> [crees@pegasus]~% echo $?
> 0
> [crees@pegasus]~%
> 
> The required_modules code calls load_kld, which uses kldload -n. This 
> always returns true... unless Oliver has removed the zfs module from 
> /boot/kernel perhaps?

He explicitly stated he is running with ZFS compiled into
his kernel, in that situation there well be
no /boot/kernel/zfs.ko file.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd.org



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