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undocumented libzfs API changes broke "zfs list"
While OpenZFS does permit breaking changes to the libzfs API, we should avoid these changes when reasonably possible, and take steps to mitigate the impact to consumers when changes are necessary. Commit e4288a8 made a libzfs API change that is especially difficult for consumers because there is no change to the function signatures, only to their behavior. Therefore, consumers can't notice that there was a change at compile time. Also, the API change was incompletely and incorrectly documented. The commit message mentions `zfs_get_prop()` [sic], but all callers of `get_numeric_property()` are impacted: `zfs_prop_get()`, `zfs_prop_get_numeric()`, and `zfs_prop_get_int()`. `zfs_prop_get_int()` always calls `get_numeric_property(src=NULL)`, so it assumes that the filesystem is not mounted. This means that e.g. `zfs_prop_get_int(ZFS_PROP_MOUNTED)` always returns 0. The documentation says that to preserve the previous behavior, callers should initialize `*src=ZPROP_SRC_NONE`, and some callers were changed to do that. However, the existing behavior is actually preserved by initializing `*src=ZPROP_SRC_ALL`, not `NONE`. The code comment above `zfs_prop_get()` says, "src: ... NULL will be treated as ZPROP_SRC_ALL.". However, the code actually treats NULL as ZPROP_SRC_NONE. i.e. `zfs_prop_get(src=NULL)` assumes that the filesystem is not mounted. There are several existing calls which use `src=NULL` which are impacted by the API change, most noticeably those used by `zfs list`, which now assumes that filesystems are not mounted. For example, `zfs list -o name,mounted` previously indicated whether a filesystem was mounted or not, but now it always (incorrectly) indicates that the filesystem is not mounted (`MOUNTED: no`). Similarly, properties that are set at mount time are ignored. E.g. `zfs list -o name,atime` may display an incorrect value if it was set at mount time. To address these problems, this commit reverts commit e4288a8: "zfs get: don't lookup mount options when using "-s local"" Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Matthew Ahrens <[email protected]> Closes openzfs#11999
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