Re: FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-23:16.openzfs

Hi!

> On Mon, 04 Dec 2023 08:48:52 -0500
> Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.ilk.org> wrote:
> 
> > Kurt Jaeger <pi@freebsd.org> writes:
> > 
> > > I had thought that the ZFS fix is a kernel fix so that the kernel
> > > would also report -p1, but it does not. It might be because
> > > zfs is a kernel module, so the kernel itself was not really patched,
> > > but I might be wrong here.
> > 
> > As far as I can see, that seems exactly right.
> 
> As this kind of confusion caused by mismatch of patchlevel between
> kernel and userland arises from time to time, now would be the time to
> switch to keep patchlevel in sync between kernel and userland.

I'm fine with a little confusion if there's less churn during updates.

> What was worse this time was that a non-in-kernel-but-in-tree module,
> zfs.ko, is updated but kernel itself is not updated.

It happens not very much, so it really does not matter.

A note in the EN would be sufficient from my point of view.

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