Windows 8.1, Not working at all

[BullShark]

I installed the 0.23 release in Windows 8.1. I rebooted. The drive with zfs is not detected. I tried installing again and rebooting again. Nothing at all changed. See the screenshot.

[lundman]

Presumably the ZFSin.sys driver doesn't load due to some function(s) that aren't supported by Win8.1 - Wonder what they could be, and if there is a way to get it to tell us which.

[BullShark]

Maybe you could download Windows 8.1 and try it in a VM like Virtual Box or VMWare to see? I originally had Windows 8, and it updated to 8.1.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

Let me know if you'd like me to submit some Windows logs and which ones.

[lundman]

OK, so this is what I learnt. The install log is apparently C:/Windows/inf/setupapi.dev.log; in that, i get code 37 CM_PROB_FAILED_DRIVER_ENTRY.

Searching on that came up with the suggestion to run Depends.exe to find out what fails to link; It lists; MSRPC.SYS STORPORT.SYS WDFLDR.SYS

Storport surprises me a bit, as I went that route with the recommendation of the nt-dev guys. The other two are unfamiliar to me.

[BullShark]

Here is my C:/Windows/inf/setupapi.dev.log if it helps. setupapi.dev.log

[lundman]

OK so all three files it complains about, are in Windows/system32/drivers, and if I copy them into the same place as ZFSin.sys, the Depends.exe util comes up with no errors. Wonder I am supposed to set dependencies to them, so they are automatically loaded.

[lundman]

Aha, ok, I built the SYS for Win10 Universal. Let me build one for "Desktop" and Win8

[lundman]

https://openzfsonosx.org/wiki/Windows_builds

[lundman]

heh, no, forgot I stuck Win8 on the name, one sec

[lundman]

Ok updated: http://www.lundman.net/OpenZFSOnWindows-debug-20200703-Win8x64.exe

[BullShark]

It's not fixed for me. I have dependency walker. I am getting the same error about missing files. I am using the one from your link to install.

[BullShark]

OK so all three files it complains about, are in Windows/system32/drivers, and if I copy them into the same place as ZFSin.sys, the Depends.exe util comes up with no errors. Wonder I am supposed to set dependencies to them, so they are automatically loaded.

I did this. I copied the files.

Then I did a reboot.

I am still receiving this message.

$ zpool status
Unable to open \\.\ZFS: No such file or directory.
Verify the ZFS module stack is loaded by running '/insert windows magic here/' as root.
The /dev/zfs device is missing and must be created.
Try running 'udevadm trigger' as root to create it.

My drive is a usb hard drive. It is this one.

https://www.newegg.com/black-seagate-expansion-4tb/p/N82E16822184784?item=N82E16822184784

[lundman]

Indefinitely had it loading over debugger, but maybe I stuffed something up during packaging - I'll try the installer myself to make sure

[lundman]

I tried Win8 install from yesterday, and it didn't work. So I tried today's Win7 install, and then it worked. So either the recompile today helped, or that I installed it twice? Odd.

[BullShark]

No error from "zpool status", but the pool is not found from the command.

The drive with an encrypted zfs pool and dataset I created in Linux is not showing in Windows Explorer. No drive letter for the drive with ZFS (example C: )

The Partition Manager sees the drive and pool.

[BullShark]

[BullShark]

Read Only???? That's not good!

[BullShark]

[BullShark]

Is this a different issue? It did not prompt me for the encryption password either.

[BullShark]

Error.

[BullShark]

Reproduce the bug:

1. Download Manjaro with KDE from here.

https://manjaro.org/download/#kde-plasma

2. Run in Virtual Box or USB Drive with Rufus.

https://rufus.ie/

3. Open Konsole and

sudo passwd root sudo su - pacman -S zfs-dkms zfs-utils modprobe zfs zpool create -O encryption=on -O keyformat=passphrase -O keylocation=prompt -f storage /dev/sde

Change /dev/sde to your drive for ZFS testing. Check with fdisk -l

4. Now try using the drive in Windows 8.1.

[BullShark]

[lundman]

The readonly was because objquota and projectquota was enabled, two features that ZFSin do not yet understand, create a pool without those features. Use zpool import -l to have it ask for passwd on import. Give up on driveletter for now, there is an issue for it, as it doesnt work for the pool.

[Aerol]

Give up on driveletter for now, there is an issue for it, as it doesnt work for the pool.

How does one use the zfs pool in Explorer without assigning a drive letter?

[lundman]

It gives you the first available driveletter (instead of a specific one). You can run zfs mount to see what was assign. You often need to push F5 in Explorer to fresh it to show.

[BullShark]

The readonly was because objquota and projectquota was enabled, two features that ZFSin do not yet understand, create a pool without those features.

Would this be correct for creating a pool and dataset with encryption, prevent disk writing when reading if atime <= 24 hours, enable compression, and those 2 features disabled in the pool?

zpool create -O encryption=on -O keyformat=passphrase -O keylocation=prompt -O compression=on -O relatime=off -o feature@userobj_accounting=disabled -o feature@project_quota=disabled -f storage /dev/sde

[lundman]

I believe you have to use zpool create -d where -d disables everything, then you can turn the features you want back on again. It's a bit of a pain, but fixes for that is suppose to come from upstream.

[BullShark]

Filesystem features can be turned on and off after creation. Pool features cannot be toggled on and off after creation. So far, everything is good using my command.