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zfs: disagrees about version
December 9, 2015

zfs: disagrees about version

Posted on December 9, 2015  •  3 minutes  • 481 words  •  Suggest Changes

ZFSonLinux (ZOL) is a great project that creates a Linux kernel port of the ZFS filesystem. However when the kernel updates, it always makes problems with ZFS kernel module 🙁  I have not found a stable solution, only a very dirty “windows alike method”. I will share it as a future reference for my colleagues and -primary- myself.

Failed to load ZFS module stack.

In essence, a new kernel is installed, it will “weak” link the ZFS modules, for some reason ZFS doesn’t like that and gets partially updated. Both the new and the old kernel will not be able to load the ZFS data, for people who are now in full panic mode (like myself every-time this happens) : **Your data is not lost. **

# find the version of spl and zfs
dkms status

# both remove them
dkms remove -m zfs -v 0.6.3 --all
dkms remove -m spl -v 0.6.3 --all

# install the headers for the new kernel
# ubuntu/debian
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

# centos
yum install kernel-headers

# reinstall zfs
yum reinstall zfs

#add & build them again
dkms add -m spl -v 0.6.3
dkms add -m zfs -v 0.6.3
dkms install -m spl -v 0.6.3
dkms install -m zfs -v 0.6.3

# try loading in :
modprobe zfs

# if you can load zfs again now, you can skip this step
# I can't so I had to reboot my machine. (I know its crazy)
# find the data 
zpool import

# my poolname is tank
zpool import tank

And that is how I saved myself! (for now.)

During upgrade from 0.8.x -> 2.x I found files here being annoying :

/var/lib/dkms/zfs

 

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