ZFS 2.1.x on RH/CentOS 7

[shodanshok]

System information

Type	Version/Name
Distribution Name	CentOS
Distribution Version	7
Kernel Version	3.10.0-1160.80.1.el7.x86_64
Architecture	x86_64
OpenZFS Version	2.1.7

Describe the problem you're observing

The current RH/CentOS 7 repository only provides ZFS up to 2.0.7

For using the newer 2.1.x branch one has to enable the zfs-testing repo, which is not ideal for production machines (at least in principle).

Please provide ZFS 2.1.x in the main zfs branch.

Describe how to reproduce the problem

On a fully updated RH/CentOS 7 machines, querying the available ZFS version returns the following:

[root@kvm ~]# yum info zfs
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: centos.mirror.garr.it
 * centos-qemu-ev: centos.mirror.garr.it
 * epel: it1.mirror.vhosting-it.com
 * extras: centos.mirror.garr.it
 * updates: centos.mirror.garr.it
Installed Packages
Name        : zfs
Arch        : x86_64
Version     : 2.0.7
Release     : 1.el7
Size        : 1.4 M
Repo        : installed
From repo   : zfs-kmod
Summary     : Commands to control the kernel modules and libraries
URL         : https://github.com/openzfs/zfs
License     : CDDL
Description : This package contains the core ZFS command line utilities.

You can see that no ZFS 2.1.x is provided.

Include any warning/errors/backtraces from the system logs

[daniejstriata]

I can confirm that 2.0.7 Is still the latest release available for Centos 7. I could not find any mention that 2.1.x is not compatible with RHEL7 based distros.

[daniejstriata]

I enabled the testing repo for Centos 7 which provides me with 2.1.8.

---> Package libnvpair3.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package libnvpair3.x86_64 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package libuutil3.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package libuutil3.x86_64 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package libzfs4.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package libzfs5.x86_64 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package libzpool4.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be obsoleted
---> Package libzpool5.x86_64 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be obsoleting
---> Package zfs.x86_64 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package zfs.x86_64 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be an update
---> Package zfs-dkms.noarch 0:2.0.7-1.el7 will be updated
---> Package zfs-dkms.noarch 0:2.1.8-1.el7 will be an update

[chrismuzyn]

This is still an issue as of August 2023.

We are running into a similar issue to #14005, and want to upgrade to the latest to get the arc_evict changes made here: #14359.