Re: ZFS on Guix

[raid5atemyhomework]

Available here: https://issues.guix.gnu.org/45643

Please review! Hopefully it gets merged!

> 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)
> > .