Merge pull request #4807 from wizeman/u/zfs-improvements

ZFS improvements

nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1-init.sh

@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ for o in $(cat /proc/cmdline); do
     esac
 done
 
+# Set hostid before modules are loaded.
+# This is needed by the spl/zfs modules.
+@setHostId@
 
 # Load the required kernel modules.
 mkdir -p /lib

nixos/modules/system/boot/stage-1.nix

@@ -188,6 +188,15 @@ let
     fsInfo =
       let f = fs: [ fs.mountPoint (if fs.device != null then fs.device else "/dev/disk/by-label/${fs.label}") fs.fsType fs.options ];
       in pkgs.writeText "initrd-fsinfo" (concatStringsSep "\n" (concatMap f fileSystems));
+
+    setHostId = optionalString (config.networking.hostId != null) ''
+      hi="${config.networking.hostId}"
+      ${if pkgs.stdenv.isBigEndian then ''
+        echo -ne "\x''${hi:0:2}\x''${hi:2:2}\x''${hi:4:2}\x''${hi:6:2}" > /etc/hostid
+      '' else ''
+        echo -ne "\x''${hi:6:2}\x''${hi:4:2}\x''${hi:2:2}\x''${hi:0:2}" > /etc/hostid
+      ''}
+    '';
   };