[OmniOS-discuss] ZPOOL bug after upgrade to r151020

[Dan McDonald]

> On Apr 9, 2017, at 10:27 PM, John Barfield <john.barfield at bissinc.com> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Dan.
> 
> Do you happen to have the process or know the location of a process document for only building ZFS?
> 
> Ive re-built only nfs from illumos-gate in the past to resolve a bug but im wondering how I would build and install only zfs. (if its even possible).
> 
> There are 2 bugs that we're suffering with at two different customer sites that didnt get into r151020 and Im not sure that we can make it till r151022 is released.
> 
> Thanks for any advice

You can build zfs the way you likely built NFS.  Build it, replace it on an alternate BE (in zfs's case:  /kernel/fs/amd64/zfs), and reboot.

The only gotcha might be if a bugfix covers more than just ZFS itself... but for 7504, that's NOT the case.  :)

Dan