(g)parted corrupts a running ZFS pool

Bug #2002242 reported by Máté Kovács
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Bug Description

I did the following:
I initialized a zfs pool using 4 raw usb disks without partition. I started copying stuff on it. Everything seemed fine. Out of curiosity I fired up gparted to see what it sees on those disks which are members of the zfs pool. The members of the zfs pool do not have partitions, I gave whole disks to zpool. It crashed itself all over the place. One disk faulted and therefore the whole pool, because this one does not have redundancy. But after some reboots the whole pool recovered, I scrubbed many times already, no problems, the whole contents are there.

I have the feelings that something goes wrong if parted checks on zfs pool members.. I am a computer scientists and I like trying out open-source stuff. Does parted have tests like this? This is an important info! DON'T start parted before exporting and unplugging zpool disks if they contain important stuff!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: gparted 1.3.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-57.63-generic 5.15.74
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-57-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Jan 8 13:16:19 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-18 (415 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20210819.1)
SourcePackage: gparted
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-10-09 (90 days ago)

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Máté Kovács (kovmate2) wrote :
summary: - (g)parted interferes with a running zfs pool
+ (g)parted corrupts a running zfs pool
summary: - (g)parted corrupts a running zfs pool
+ (g)parted corrupts a running ZFS pool
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