Alternative path required when using OpenZFS for zpool to allow listing of pools

[isketerol64]

When using OpenZfs, the binary for zpool is found in /usr/local/sbin and not in /sbin. This means that the ZFS pools will not be listed in the Cockpit ZFS module. An easy fix follows.

cd /sbin
ln -s /usr/local/sbin/zpool zpool

Once this is done, a fresh in the ZFS module should show the pools.

These other binaries also need to be linked in the same way to ensure that all functionality is available.

• zdb
• zfs
• zfs_ids_to_path
• zhack
• zinject
• zpool
• zstream
• zstreamdump
• ztest

[Thorazin]

Could I use a symlink from /sbin to /user/local/sbin to accomplish the same thing?

wait, thats what your command does, right?
yes, nevermind me...

[isketerol64]

Could I use a symlink from /sbin to /user/local/sbin to accomplish the same thing?

wait, thats what your command does, right? yes, nevermind me...

I symlinked each of the binaries as I wanted to be sure to only pick up the binaries I wanted. A more elegant solution would be to modify the system PATH variable to include the OpenZFS binaries but again I wanted to be sure I only picked up the binaries I wanted.

Many different PATHs to the same result. :-)

Kevin

[Thorazin]

Could I use a symlink from /sbin to /user/local/sbin to accomplish the same thing?
wait, thats what your command does, right? yes, nevermind me...

I symlinked each of the binaries as I wanted to be sure to only pick up the binaries I wanted. A more elegant solution would be to modify the system PATH variable to include the OpenZFS binaries but again I wanted to be sure I only picked up the binaries I wanted.

Many different PATHs to the same result. :-)

Kevin

I am a little slow, but I get there eventually...

[Thorazin]

Is this still working for you? It has stopped working for me and I am not sure why.

[q5sys]

@Thorazin I just tried this on a Rocky 9 box where I've manually compiled the latest openzfs and this symlink trick worked for me.

[Thorazin]

This may be of interest to some of you here. I rebuilt ZFS on a newly instally Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, again with the 6.5 HWE kernel but this time I followed the instructions to build a KMOD native Deb build as found here:

https://openzfs.github.io/openzfs-docs/Developer%20Resources/Custom%20Packages.html

and Cockpit is able to see the ZFS pools with zero modifications. No symlinking required.

[isketerol64]

RedHat derivatives use a different directory for the binaries than does Debian hence the need to symlink.

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