This allows one to take a staged directory tree and create a file
consisting of a ZFS pool with one or more datasets that contain the
contents of the directory tree. This is useful for creating virtual
machine images without using the kernel to create a pool; "zpool create"
requires root privileges and currently is not permitted in jails.
makefs -t zfs also provides reproducible images by using a fixed seed
for pseudo-random number generation, used for generating GUIDs and hash
salts. makefs -t zfs requires relatively little by way of machine
resources.
The "zpool_reguid" rc.conf setting can be used to ask a FreeBSD guest to
generate a unique pool GUID upon first boot.
A small number of pool and dataset properties are supported. The pool
is backed by a single disk vdev. Data is always checksummed using
Fletcher-4, no redundant copies are made, and no compression is used.
The manual page documents supported pool and filesystem properties.
The implementation uses a few pieces of ZFS support from with the boot
loader, especially definitions for various on-disk structures, but is
otherwise standalone and in particular doesn't depend on OpenZFS.
This feature should be treated as experimental for now, i.e., important
data shouldn't be trusted to a makefs-created pool, and the command-line
interface is subject to change.
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35248
after r298107
Summary of changes:
- Replace all instances of FILES/TESTS with ${PACKAGE}FILES. This ensures that
namespacing is kept with FILES appropriately, and that this shouldn't need
to be repeated if the namespace changes -- only the definition of PACKAGE
needs to be changed
- Allow PACKAGE to be overridden by callers instead of forcing it to always be
`tests`. In the event we get to the point where things can be split up
enough in the base system, it would make more sense to group the tests
with the blocks they're a part of, e.g. byacc with byacc-tests, etc
- Remove PACKAGE definitions where possible, i.e. where FILES wasn't used
previously.
- Remove unnecessary TESTSPACKAGE definitions; this has been elided into
bsd.tests.mk
- Remove unnecessary BINDIRs used previously with ${PACKAGE}FILES;
${PACKAGE}FILESDIR is now automatically defined in bsd.test.mk.
- Fix installation of files under data/ subdirectories in lib/libc/tests/hash
and lib/libc/tests/net/getaddrinfo
- Remove unnecessary .include <bsd.own.mk>s (some opportunistic cleanup)
Document the proposed changes in share/examples/tests/tests/... via examples
so it's clear that ${PACKAGES}FILES is the suggested way forward in terms of
replacing FILES. share/mk/bsd.README didn't seem like the appropriate method
of communicating that info.
MFC after: never probably
X-MFC with: r298107
PR: 209114
Relnotes: yes
Tested with: buildworld, installworld, checkworld; buildworld, packageworld
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
In some cases the test system might not have mount_cd9660(8). Don't
implicitly rely on it while testing cd9660 support; explicitly rely
on it
MFC after: 1 week
Reported by: mjohnston
Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
