Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

Release 0.0.4 - Unreleased

Features

The privilege escalation helper can now run proactively in some situations. While it could only be enabled or disabled (use_pe_helper = True/False), it can now also run proactively in some situations. To accomodate this, a new enum PEHelperMode was added. Instead of simply enabling or disabling it, a PEHelperMode enum has been introduced. The old False for disabling is now PEHelperMode.DO_NOT_USE, both PEHelperMode.USE_IF_REQUIRED and PEHelperMode.USE_PROACTIVE replace the old True, with the latter performing the action or parts of it (like umounting before destroying) before the actual action occurs. The old parameters and properties are slated for removal in the next release.

Deprecated features

use_pe_helper was deprecated in favor of pe_helper_mode. Usage of the old parameters or properties will generate a DeprecationWarning. When used, they will set pe_helper_mode if appropriate, by either setting it to PEHelperMode.DO_NOT_USE (if False) or PEHelperMode.USE_IF_REQUIRED (when set True). The parameters and properties will be removed in the next version (0.0.4).

Features

Support privilege escalation when removing a fileset in OpenZFS 2.0+, where the error message does no longer indicate that it is a permission problem.
In some situations, privilege escalation can be performed proactively, i.e. if selected it calls the pe_helper right away instead of failing, analyzing the error message and then calling it.

Tooling

Bugfixes

PropertySource now propertly handles inherited properties which specify the dataset they inherit their value from.

It spawned like this out of thin air.