Comment 0 for bug 1760173

1. # lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS
Release: 16.04

2. # apt-cache policy zfsutils-linux
zfsutils-linux:
  Installed: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu19
  Candidate: 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu19
  Version table:
 *** 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu19 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3. When inside a lxd container with zfs storage, zfs list or zpool status either return or report what's going on.

4. When inside a lxd container with zfs storage, zfs list or zpool status appears to hang, no output for 10 seconds.

strace reveals that without a /dev/zfs the tools wait for it to appear for 10 seconds but do not provide a command line switch to disable or make it more verbose.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: zfsutils-linux 0.6.5.6-0ubuntu19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-36.40~16.04.1-generic 4.13.13
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-36-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.15
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Mar 30 18:09:29 2018
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm-256color
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=C.UTF-8
SourcePackage: zfs-linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)