On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 16:56 -0500, Neal Gompa wrote: > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:14 AM Andrea Bolognani <abologna@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > As another data point, Debian currently carries a patch[1] which > > allows us to enable the ZFS driver without installing the ZFS > > packages in the build environment: this is necessary because, due to > > its license, ZFS is kept outside of the main Debian repository. > > > > Being able to use something like > > > > -Dprog_zfs=/sbin/zfs -Dprog_zfspool=/sbin/zfspool > > > > to achieve the same result would allow us to drop that patch, which I > > would be *extremely* happy about :) > > The way I solved *that* specific problem was to use zfs-fuse at > build-time and have runtime work with either implementation. That > should work for you too, since Debian has zfs-fuse in main. This sounds intriguing. Can you please point me to the code? -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization
