[LU-5060] mkfs.lustre --backfstype=zfs fails to execute due to fix library name libzfs.so.1

Duplicate — Thu, 15 May 2014 08:19:00 +0000

Cloning master SPL/ZFS from github and compiling and running Lustre (cloned from master) with ZFS backend
only, results in:

# mkfs.lustre --reformat --mgs --backfstype=zfs ....

mkfs.lustre FATAL: Failed to initialize ZFS library. Are the ZFS
packages and modules correctly installed?
mkfs.lustre FATAL: unable to prepare backend (22)
mkfs.lustre: exiting with 22 (Invalid argument)

strace reveals:

# strace mkfs.lustre --backfstype=zfs ...

...
...
open("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64/libzfs.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such
file or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls/x86_64", 0x7fffcb620930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/tls/libzfs.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat("/usr/lib/tls", 0x7fffcb620930)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/x86_64/libzfs.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file
or directory)
stat("/usr/lib/x86_64", 0x7fffcb620930) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
open("/usr/lib/libzfs.so.1", O_RDONLY)  = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
directory)
stat("/usr/lib", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
munmap(0x7f650e274000, 13380)           = 0
write(2, "\nmkfs.lustre FATAL: ", 20
mkfs.lustre FATAL: )   = 20
write(2, "Failed to initialize ZFS library"..., 88Failed to initialize
ZFS library. Are the ZFS packages and modules correctly installed?

In mount_utils_zfs.c:

...
	handle_libzfs = dlopen("libzfs.so.1", RTLD_LAZY);
	if (handle_libzfs == NULL)
		return EINVAL;

	handle_nvpair = dlopen("libnvpair.so.1", RTLD_LAZY);
	if (handle_nvpair == NULL) {
		ret = EINVAL;
		goto out;
	}
...

However, the latest ZFS libraries are named:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff      15 May 14 11:46 libzfs.so -> libzfs.so.2.0.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff      15 May 14 11:46 libzfs.so.2 -> libzfs.so.2.0.0
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff 1040438 May 14 11:46 libzfs.so.2.0.0
...
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff      18 May 14 11:46 libnvpair.so -> libnvpair.so.1.0.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root staff      18 May 14 11:46 libnvpair.so.1 -> libnvpair.so.1.0.1
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root staff  317279 May 14 11:46 libnvpair.so.1.0.1

I guess the most simplest solution to fix that, would be changing

handle_libzfs = dlopen("libzfs.so.1", RTLD_LAZY);

into

handle_libzfs = dlopen("libzfs.so", RTLD_LAZY);

So it will based on the proper symbolic links.

I will provide a simple patch for this problem.

Whamcloud Community JIRA

[LU-5060] mkfs.lustre --backfstype=zfs fails to execute due to fix library name libzfs.so.1