freebsd-src/rescue
Matt Macy 9e5787d228 Merge OpenZFS support in to HEAD.
The primary benefit is maintaining a completely shared
code base with the community allowing FreeBSD to receive
new features sooner and with less effort.

I would advise against doing 'zpool upgrade'
or creating indispensable pools using new
features until this change has had a month+
to soak.

Work on merging FreeBSD support in to what was
at the time "ZFS on Linux" began in August 2018.
I first publicly proposed transitioning FreeBSD
to (new) OpenZFS on December 18th, 2018. FreeBSD
support in OpenZFS was finally completed in December
2019. A CFT for downstreaming OpenZFS support in
to FreeBSD was first issued on July 8th. All issues
that were reported have been addressed or, for
a couple of less critical matters there are
pull requests in progress with OpenZFS. iXsystems
has tested and dogfooded extensively internally.
The TrueNAS 12 release is based on OpenZFS with
some additional features that have not yet made
it upstream.

Improvements include:
  project quotas, encrypted datasets,
  allocation classes, vectorized raidz,
  vectorized checksums, various command line
  improvements, zstd compression.

Thanks to those who have helped along the way:
Ryan Moeller, Allan Jude, Zack Welch, and many
others.

Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D25872
2020-08-25 02:21:27 +00:00
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librescue Make rescue use SRCTOP 2017-03-12 18:59:09 +00:00
rescue Merge OpenZFS support in to HEAD. 2020-08-25 02:21:27 +00:00
Makefile
README rescue: say gbye to 'boot floppies' and moderize 2017-10-29 21:21:39 +00:00

The /rescue build system here has three goals:

1) Produce a reliable standalone set of /rescue tools.

The contents of /rescue are all statically linked and do not depend on
anything in /bin or /sbin.  In particular, they'll continue to
function even if you've hosed your dynamic /bin and /sbin.  For
example, note that /rescue/mount runs /rescue/mount_nfs and not
/sbin/mount_nfs.  This is more subtle than it looks.

As an added bonus, /rescue is fairly small (thanks to crunchgen) and
includes a number of tools (such as gzip, bzip2, vi) that are not
normally found in /bin and /sbin.

2) Demonstrate robust use of crunchgen.

These Makefiles recompile each of the crunchgen components and include
support for overriding specific library entries.  Such techniques
should be useful elsewhere.

3) Produce a toolkit suitable for small distributions.

Install /rescue on a CD or CompactFlash disk, and symlink /bin and
/sbin to /rescue to produce a small and fairly complete FreeBSD
system.

These tools have one big disadvantage: being statically linked, they
cannot use some advanced library functions that rely on dynamic
linking.  In particular, nsswitch, locales, and pam all
rely on dynamic linking.


To compile:

# cd /usr/src/rescue
# make obj
# make
# make install

Note that rebuilds don't always work correctly; if you run into
trouble, try 'make clean' before recompiling.

$FreeBSD$