Re: ZFS on Guix

[raid5atemyhomework]

Yes, I found that out after a little more digging.

I have a preliminary patch here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45592
However I will make a patchset based on this in order to support /home on ZFS 
and managing ZFS the "legacy" way by (file-system ...) declaration, please wait.



> Hi,
>
> the reason is that our "zfs" package uses
>
> ("util-linux" ,util-linux "lib")
>
> and then does
>
> (substitute* "lib/libzfs/libzfs_mount.c"
> (("/bin/mount") (string-append util-linux "/bin/mount"))
> (("/bin/umount") (string-append util-linux "/bin/umount")))
>
> .
>
> That can't work.
>
> zfs interna that will be patched by the Guix package are:
>
> ./lib/libzfs/libzfs_mount.c
>
> do_mount(const char *src, const char *mntpt, char *opts)
>
> char *argv[9] = {
> "/bin/mount",
> "--no-canonicalize",
> "-t", MNTTYPE_ZFS,
> "-o", opts,
> (char *)src,
> (char *)mntpt,
> (char *)NULL };
>
> Easy fix would be to change our package to have both
>
> ("util-linux:lib" ,util-linux "lib")
>
> and
>
> ("util-linux" ,util-linux)
>
> .