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Date:      Tue, 9 Apr 2019 21:08:53 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <chris@rees.space>
To:        Chris Rees <crees@bayofrum.net>, rgrimes@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "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:  <56770290-a7f2-07dc-3f5a-f9d5721db724@rees.space>
In-Reply-To: <A35301AC-C3A4-478A-8D4A-99E97D1CB8C6@bayofrum.net>
References:  <201904091955.x39Jt7PU061907@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <A35301AC-C3A4-478A-8D4A-99E97D1CB8C6@bayofrum.net>

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On 09/04/2019 20:59, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 9 April 2019 20:55:07 BST, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote:
>>> On 09/04/2019 21:33, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>> Maybe it's because the module's name is zfsctrl (for whatever reason)
>> while the
>>> module file is named zfs.ko.
>> I suspect that could also lead to issues with the new code.
>> It seems to be failing to detect that zfs is infact functional in the
>> kernel,
>> and blindly, or not so blindly, trying to load zfs,ko, which when you
>> build
>> it into the kernel you usually do so without any modules built, so
>> there is
>> no /boot/kernel/zfs.ko, and even if you did build it any attempt to
>> load
>> it would return an error.
> Loading with it built in isn't a problem, as I showed earlier.
>
> Loading when it doesn't exist *is*.
>
> I'm torn.  Either we could revert this, or add a check to the required_modules function instead, which I think is the better solution.

Hang on,

[crees@pegasus]~% sudo kldload -n zfsctrl && echo yes
yes

[crees@pegasus]~% find /boot -name zfsctrl\*
[crees@pegasus]~%

I think that, rather than speculating, we should wait for Oliver to 
confirm that this is actually the problem, because I still don't think 
it is.

Chris


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