Re: getroot for ZFS without libzfs?

[Robert Millan]

2011/10/15 Seth Goldberg <address@hidden>:
> Hi again,
>
>  Also: can we please retain the libzfs usage for those platforms that 
> actually have it and that would rather use it?

What for?  libzfs is only needed for a single operation (determining
physical device list).  With my patch that operation is no longer
required.

> I can certainly understand the desire to eliminate it for platforms that 
> don't have or don't want to port it, but eliminating it from all platforms is 
> overkill.

It's not a portability problem.  It seems libzfs isn't really meant to
be used externally.  ABI changes without notice, there's no soname
update and no versioning information.  See:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=645305

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Robert Millan