Re: [PATCH e2fsprogs] Add ZFS detection to libblkid

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Ricardo M. Correia wrote:
> This patch adds ZFS filesystem detection to libblkid.
> 
> It probes for VDEV_BOOT_MAGIC in the first 2 ZFS labels in big-endian
> and little-endian formats.
> Unfortunately the probe table doesn't support probing from the end of
> the device, otherwise we could also probe in the 3rd and 4th labels (in
> case the first 2 labels were accidentally overwritten)..
> 
> Eventually we would set the UUID from the ZFS pool GUID and the LABEL tag
> from the pool name, but that requires parsing an XDR encoding of the pool
> configuration which is not trivial.

Hi Ricardo:

I've got a bug on fedora now where a partition w/ zfs on it is being
recognized as ext3.  VDEV_BOOT_MAGIC isn't anywhere in the first 1M of
the device, though an old ext3 superblock is intact.  :(

# hexdump -C sda2-first-1M | grep "0c b1 07 b0 f5 02 00 00"
# hexdump -C sda2-first-1M | grep "00 00 02 f5 b0 07 b1 0c"
#

(so a plea - can you guys change mkfs to zero old signatures?  maybe
256k at the front & end of the device in question?)

there is apparently an uberblock signature in it though:

# hexdump -C sda2-first-1M | grep "0c b1 ba 00"
00015e30  30 e8 ff ff 85 c0 5b 75  48 8b 06 35 0c b1 ba 00

does blkid need more work here, I guess?

Thanks,
-Eric
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