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Remove zdb and libzpool from initramfs image
= Motivation

At Delphix we are heavy users of kernel crash dumps that are captured
through a crash kernel that is spawned whenever the main kernel panics.
The way that this works internally is that a certain amount of memory is
reserved while the main system is running so the initramfs of the crash
kernel can be loaded when a panic occurs.

In order to keep reserved memory at minimum we've been historically
trying to identify the binaries that are part of the kernel's initramfs
that are big and finding ways of either making them smaller or do not
include them in the initramfs image. An example is always stripping the
DWARF info of the ZFS kernel module copy that is included in the
initramfs image of both our running and our crash kernel (the difference
in size there is 76MB vs 4MB).

We've recently identified that libzpool has been the largest binary in
our initramfs images - currently sized around 17MB.

= This Patch

The ZFS scripts do not explicitly copy libzpool to initramfs. They copy
zdb which pulls in libzpool as a dependency. Given that both zdb and
libzpool are not really essential for initramfs (e.g. we'll still have
access to the once the root filesystem is unpacked) this patch removes
them from initramfs.

Reviewed-by: Richard Laager <rlaager@wiktel.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Ahrens <mahrens@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: John Kennedy <john.kennedy@delphix.com>
Reviewed-by: George Melikov <mail@gmelikov.ru>
Signed-off-by: Serapheim Dimitropoulos <serapheim@delphix.com>
Closes #12616
2021-10-07 10:52:03 -06:00
.github CI: don't install abigail-tools 2021-09-02 10:02:27 -07:00
cmd Rescan enclosure sysfs path on import 2021-10-04 12:32:16 -07:00
config Use fallthrough macro 2021-09-14 10:17:54 -06:00
contrib Remove zdb and libzpool from initramfs image 2021-10-07 10:52:03 -06:00
etc systemd: import: expand $ZPOOL_IMPORT_OPTS correctly 2021-06-14 09:48:53 -06:00
include Rescan enclosure sysfs path on import 2021-10-04 12:32:16 -07:00
lib Rescan enclosure sysfs path on import 2021-10-04 12:32:16 -07:00
man Document additional -c caveat 2021-10-05 11:48:17 -07:00
module Rescan enclosure sysfs path on import 2021-10-04 12:32:16 -07:00
rpm Added uncompress requirement 2021-06-11 09:38:23 -06:00
scripts Add zfs.sh -r flag to reload modules 2021-08-13 13:37:46 -07:00
tests ZTS: Minimize udev_wait in zvol_misc tests 2021-10-01 09:36:02 -06:00
udev Udev rules: remove zvol compat symlinks (without the leading zvol/) 2021-07-06 13:41:17 -07:00
.editorconfig Add an .editorconfig; document git whitespace settings 2020-01-27 13:32:52 -08:00
.gitignore Add FreeBSD support to OpenZFS 2020-04-14 11:36:28 -07:00
.gitmodules .gitmodules: link to openzfs github repository 2021-04-12 09:37:23 -07:00
AUTHORS Add zstd support to zfs 2020-08-20 10:30:06 -07:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md Replace ZFS on Linux references with OpenZFS 2020-10-08 20:10:13 -07:00
COPYRIGHT Fix typos 2020-06-09 21:24:09 -07:00
LICENSE Update build system and packaging 2018-05-29 16:00:33 -07:00
META Linux 5.14 compat: META 2021-09-15 14:09:31 -07:00
Makefile.am Check for libabigail version 2021-09-02 10:01:45 -07:00
NEWS Fix NEWS file 2020-08-26 21:44:41 -07:00
NOTICE Update build system and packaging 2018-05-29 16:00:33 -07:00
README.md Update FreeBSD versions 2021-03-16 15:03:28 -07:00
RELEASES.md Add RELEASES.md file 2021-04-02 16:33:40 -07:00
TEST Remove CI builder customization from TEST 2020-03-16 10:46:03 -07:00
autogen.sh Cause autogen.sh to fail if autoreconf fails 2018-07-06 09:27:37 -07:00
configure.ac ZTS: Add tests for creation time 2021-08-17 10:25:58 -07:00
copy-builtin copy-builtin: posix conformance 2021-05-08 08:58:26 -07:00
zfs.release.in Move zfs.release generation to configure step 2012-07-12 12:22:51 -07:00

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OpenZFS is an advanced file system and volume manager which was originally developed for Solaris and is now maintained by the OpenZFS community. This repository contains the code for running OpenZFS on Linux and FreeBSD.

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Full documentation for installing OpenZFS on your favorite operating system can be found at the Getting Started Page.

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Supported Kernels

  • The META file contains the officially recognized supported Linux kernel versions.
  • Supported FreeBSD versions are any supported branches and releases starting from 12.2-RELEASE.