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Subject: Re: zfs refuses to load pool on boot, zpool denies import
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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