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Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: zfsboot and zfsloader: normalization of filesystem names
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On Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:03:27 pm Andriy Gapon wrote:
> 
> Currently zfsboot uses the following format to specify a ZFS filesystem name in
> a full file path:
> poolname:filesystem/name:/path/to/file
> ZFS loader uses this format:
> zfs:poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file
> 
> The following patchset:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-boot-naming.diff
> unifies the naming.
> zfsboot format will be: poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file
> Note that it is still different from zfsloader - "zfs:" prefix is missing.  This
> is because unlike the loader zfsboot supports only ZFS filesystem, so the prefix
> is redundant.  But I can still add support for it if there is a popular request.

I think this idea sounds sound.  You could easily let zfsboot support both by just
having it skip over a 'zfs:' prefix if it sees one.

-- 
John Baldwin