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A new stable release of OpenZFS version 0.6.5.10 is out, but it does not address the gcc 7.1.1 build errors. These packages will remain out-of-date until a stable release of OpenZFS is made fixing the gcc build issues. That might take some time. Until then, if anyone really needs to update their kernel, use the archzfs-git packages.

@eblau, some work has been done on this in this branch: https://github.com/archzfs/archzfs/tree/extramodules

Unfortunately, I have not had time to finish this yet.

Thanks

The git packages have been updated to support kernel 4.11, but it looks like we're going to be waiting for another OpenZFS stable release for the archzfs stable packages:

==> Starting build()...
autoreconf: Entering directory `.'
autoreconf: configure.ac: not using Gettext
autoreconf: running: aclocal --force -I config
autoreconf: configure.ac: tracing
autoreconf: running: libtoolize --copy --force
libtoolize: putting auxiliary files in AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR, 'config'.
libtoolize: copying file 'config/ltmain.sh'
libtoolize: putting macros in AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIRS, 'config'.
libtoolize: copying file 'config/libtool.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'config/ltoptions.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'config/ltsugar.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'config/ltversion.m4'
libtoolize: copying file 'config/lt~obsolete.m4'
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoconf --force
autoreconf: running: /usr/bin/autoheader --force
autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --copy --force-missing
configure.ac:43: installing 'config/compile'
configure.ac:36: installing 'config/missing'
cmd/Makefile.am: installing 'config/depcomp'
autoreconf: Leaving directory `.'
checking for gawk... gawk
checking metadata... META file
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
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checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
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checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
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checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
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checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
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checking whether gcc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
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checking whether stripping libraries is possible... yes
checking if libtool supports shared libraries... yes
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checking spl author... OpenZFS on Linux
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checking whether vfs_getattr() wants... configure: error: unknown
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build().
Aborting...
==> ERROR: Build failed, check /opt/chroot/x86_64/demizer/build

Thanks!

Is it possible to install the zfs-linux and zfs-linux-lts family of packages side-by-side? Does anyone have a suggestion on how to do so? Currently there are file conflicts so this can't be done easily. You must choose one or the other set of packages.

I had to revert to linux-lts recently due to bugs in the 4.10.x "stable" series for i915 that cause complete system hangs with no plans to supply fixes to 4.10.x. See:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99295

It would be great if the ZFS packages could live together on the same system just like linux and linux-lts can. It seems that if the ZFS version is the same, the packages could be restructured in such a way that the modules don't conflict and any headers or supplementary files from ZFS could live in one place.

Am I oversimplifying the problem? Any suggestions on an approach to try to help with this? Do I need to move to the dkms packages?

@ShaunPC thanks for the explanation. I reinstalled 23-1 and rebooted without any issue.

@gmtch you can allow mkinitcpio generate the image and reboot using 23-1. The module that couldn't be found does exist in the kernel already. A commit to mkinitcpio will check for built-in modules like this one in a later update. The check was missing and as a result the error was produced when there wasn't really an error. I did the update with 23-1 and rebooted after the error was produced on the screen. No issues to report. It seems to be a non-error due to 23-1 not checking for built-in modules.

I got the same error as ShaunPC at 2017-03-15 02:46 and downgraded to mkinitcpio-22-1

The initramfs built okay and box rebooted without problem.

When doing an update I got the following error:

(21/21) upgrading zfs-linux [##########################################################################] 100%
>>> Updating ZFS module dependencies
>>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: 4.10.2-1-ARCH
-> Running build hook: [base]
-> Running build hook: [udev]
-> Running build hook: [autodetect]
-> Running build hook: [modconf]
-> Running build hook: [block]
-> Running build hook: [keyboard]
-> Running build hook: [zfs]
==> ERROR: module not found: `zlib_deflate'
-> Running build hook: [filesystems]
-> Running build hook: [shutdown]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating gzip-compressed initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.

I'm not sure what I can do to fix this, if anything.

Update: Found a related bug https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53304
Module errors during build with mkinitcpio 23-1, however, it doesn't seem to break anything.

Thanks for the quick package update for linux-4.10.2_1-1!

Hi, everyone. Until now, I have waited at least 24 hours before updating ZFS, in order for you to be my guinea pigs. Starting today, that is no more. I'm moving to the front lines. Happy scrubbing.