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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2012 14:33:42 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Default directory used for 'zpool import' broken (/dev/dsk)?
Message-ID:  <4FB0ED96.6010100@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <4FAF767C.8030500@cran.org.uk>
References:  <4FAF767C.8030500@cran.org.uk>

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on 13/05/2012 11:53 Bruce Cran said the following:
> When running 'zpool import' without -d I get the error:
> "cannot open '/dev/dsk': must be an absolute path"
> 
> zpool(8) suggests the default should have been updated for FreeBSD:
> "If the -d option is not specified, this command searches for devices in "/dev""
> 
> Was this broken recently?
> 

Not sure, but maybe /dev/dsk is recorded somewhere in the pool metadata or in
zpool.cache.  It could have happened with the older version of the code.
I think that you could check that with zdb.  I think that a fresh import should
fix it, though.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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