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To: Guido Falsi <mad@madpilot.net>
Subject: Re: problem booting to multi-vdev root pool
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on 19/11/2012 17:07 Guido Falsi said the following:
> On 11/19/12 14:00, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 18/11/2012 13:48 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>> on 18/11/2012 02:26 Bartosz Stec said the following:
>>>
>>> Thank you both very much for testing!
>>> Committed as r243213.
>>>
>>
>> BTW, if you have some spare time and a desire to do some more testing, you can
>> try the following patch:
>> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-spa-multi_vdev_root_support.diff
>>
>> It adds support for multi-vdev root pool probing in kernel.
>> The best way to test is to remove zpool.cache before rebooting (but make sure to
>> keep a copy somewhere and be able to recover).  I'd use a boot environment (a
>> root filesystem clone) for this.
> 
> Thank you again for the fast work.
> 
> I tested this one on that machine and it was able to boot without zpool.cache.

Great!  Thank you for testing.

> No file zpool.cache was created after boot.

This is expected.

> Are there any further test I should perform?

This was sufficient.  Thanks again.

-- 
Andriy Gapon