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MFC r303630 (by allanjude):

Description

MFC r303630 (by allanjude):
Make boot code and loader check for unsupported ZFS feature flags

OpenZFS uses feature flags instead of a zpool version number to track
features since the split from Oracle. In addition to avoiding confusion
on ZFS vs OpenZFS version numbers, this also allows features to be added
to different operating systems that use OpenZFS in different order.

The previous zfs boot code (gptzfsboot) and loader (zfsloader) blindly
tries to read the pool, and if failed provided only a vague error message.

With this change, both the boot code and loader check the MOS features
list in the ZFS label and compare it against the list of features that
the loader supports. If any unsupported feature is active, the pool is
not considered as a candidate for booting, and a helpful diagnostic
message is printed to the screen. Features that are merely enabled via
zpool upgrade, but not in use, do not block booting from the pool.

Submitted by: Toomas Soome <tsoome@me.com>
Reviewed by: delphij, mav
Relnotes: yes
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D6857

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mavAuthored on
Reviewer
delphij
Differential Revision
D6857: loader zfs should check for MOS features
Parents
rS321518: Add an auxiliary subroutine to generate some events for testing
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