Re: git: 2a58b312b62f - main - zfs: merge openzfs/zfs@431083f75

From: Charlie Li <vishwin_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2023 17:10:14 UTC
Cy Schubert wrote:
> On April 12, 2023 8:51:09 AM PDT, Charlie Li <vishwin@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Cy Schubert wrote:
>>> I have a "sandhbox" pool, called t, used for /usr/obj and ports wrkdirs, and other writes I can easily recreate on my laptop. Here are the results of my tests.
>>>
>>> Method:
>>>
>>> Initially I copied my /usr/obj from my two build machines (one amd64.amd64 and an i386.i386) to my "sandbox" zpool.
>>>
>>> Next, with block_cloning disabled I did cp -R of the /usr/obj test files. Then a diff -qr. They source and target directories were the same.
>>>
>>> Next, I cleaned up (rm -rf) the target directory to prepare for the
>>> block_clone enabled test.
>>>
>>> Next, I did zpool checkpoint t. After this, zpool upgrade t. Pool t now has block_cloning enabled.
>>>
>>> I repeated the cp -R test from above followed by a diff -qr. Almost
>>> every file was different. The pool was corrupted.
>>>
>>> I restored the pool by the following removing the corruption:
>>>
>>>
>>> slippy# zpool export t
>>> slippy# zpool import --rewind-to-checkpoint t
>>> slippy#
>>>
>>> It is recommended that people avoid upgrading their zpools until the
>>> problem is fixed.
>>>
>> As of af7624ed3145, I just did this with an md(4)-backed test pool, though with the second `cp -R` landing in a separate dataset, created and destroyed for each test. No corruption either way. However, my poudriere builds still output/package corrupted files (particularly those with null characters), probably after install(1) invocations (not cp(1)).
>>
> 
> You need to copy from/to the same dataset to reproduce the problem. Copying from a source dataset to a different dataset will avoid block_cloning.
> 
Got the corruption now.

-- 
Charlie Li
…nope, still don't have an exit line.