Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:07:48 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfs refuses to load pool on boot, zpool denies import Message-ID: <200707141107.48714.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <4698005B.3010100@vwsoft.com> References: <4697F753.5060304@vwsoft.com> <20070713221854.GC44766@dan.emsphone.com> <4698005B.3010100@vwsoft.com>
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On Friday 13 July 2007 23:44:43 Volker wrote: > damned... that's it. Thanks a lot. I was wondering about that because > I've already seen a system uuid in kenv (only checked > smbios.system.uuid) while in single user mode so I did not see the > need to manually fire `/etc/rc.d/hostid start'. > > This may be taken into the documentation - I guess more will step into > this. > > Or what about checking the hostid before doing any `zpool create | > import' and refuse operation (with a useful hint to the operator) if > hostid is 0x0? > I got burned by that one as well - I am vondering if ZFS should check system.uuid as a fall back - It does not seem correct that we have to run specific startup shell scripts in order to get a filesystem to work
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