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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:47:57 -0500
From:      "James R. Van Artsdalen" <james-freebsd-current@jrv.org>
To:        Freddie Cash <fjwcash@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS pool corrupted on upgrade of -current (probably sata renaming)
Message-ID:  <4A5E407D.40102@jrv.org>
In-Reply-To: <b269bc570907141550u6854bc8eh6ea73fe9bd3e788a@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0907132009040.2027@teapot.cbhnet>	<alpine.BSF.2.00.0907142318520.2686@teapot.cbhnet> <b269bc570907141550u6854bc8eh6ea73fe9bd3e788a@mail.gmail.com>

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Freddie Cash wrote:
> That way, it doesn't matter where the physical devices are located
> in the system, nor what the physical device nodes are called, as zpool just
> looks for the label, and GEOM handles all the heavy lifting/translating for
> you.
>   

FreeBSD would probably be better off doing away with the ZFS cache
entirely.  That's what Apple did in the same situation (device names
that can change boot to boot).


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