Almalinux 10 missing mbuffer rpm

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Hi,
I’m trying to install sanoid on a new Almalinux 10 box. It seems that the packages mbuffer and mhash were removed from the epel repository. I don’t have a RHEL or Rocky installation, but I guess this will be the case also for those distros. I didn’t find any mention of mhash*, other than in the INSTALL.md, but mbuffer is another story. My understanding, though, is that is not a hard dependency and syncoid should work without it. Is it right?

*I just rgrepped, the repo for mhash, non exactly a deep dive

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Correct, syncoid will detect the absence of mbuffer and proceed without it. You’ll give up a bit of performance in some cases, but it should still outperform just about any non-zfs replication.

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