loader: Add support for booting from a ZFS snapshot
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Authored by allanjude on Feb 15 2023, 1:59 AM.

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rGa849842f510a: loader: Add support for booting from a ZFS snapshot

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When booting from a snapshot we need to follow a different code path
to turn the objset ID into the name, and for forward lookups we need
to walk the parent's snapnames_zap.

With this, it is possible to set the pools BOOTFS property to a
snapshot and boot with a read-only filesystem of that snapshot.

Sponsored By: Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG
Sponsored By: Klara, Inc.

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allanjude created this revision.Feb 15 2023, 1:59 AM

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allanjude requested review of this revision.Feb 21 2023, 9:44 PM

Harbormaster completed remote builds in B49934: Diff 117713.Feb 21 2023, 9:44 PM

so can we use zfs:<snapshot> in all the places where we can use zfs:<dataset> now with these changes?

btw, this looks really cool...

One other thing... where is the 'read only' flag set. I may be missing it, but I don't see it here.

In D38600#881029, @imp wrote:

so can we use zfs:<snapshot> in all the places where we can use zfs:<dataset> now with these changes?

yes, you can use a snapshot for currdev etc.

You can use it with zpool set bootfs=<snapshot> pool

In D38600#881030, @imp wrote:

btw, this looks really cool...

One other thing... where is the 'read only' flag set. I may be missing it, but I don't see it here.

Like a CDROM, the snapshot is just always read-only, it didn't require setting any other flags. Every filesystem is read-only until we remount root r/w later in the boot process.

tsoome accepted this revision.Feb 21 2023, 10:39 PM

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Feb 21 2023, 10:39 PM

Tested - works as expected for me,

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