Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:41:28 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Cc: Andriy Gapon <avg@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: zfsboot and zfsloader: normalization of filesystem names Message-ID: <201209260941.29016.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <505DEF5F.8060401@FreeBSD.org> References: <505DEF5F.8060401@FreeBSD.org>
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On Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:03:27 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Currently zfsboot uses the following format to specify a ZFS filesystem name in > a full file path: > poolname:filesystem/name:/path/to/file > ZFS loader uses this format: > zfs:poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file > > The following patchset: > http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-boot-naming.diff > unifies the naming. > zfsboot format will be: poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file > Note that it is still different from zfsloader - "zfs:" prefix is missing. This > is because unlike the loader zfsboot supports only ZFS filesystem, so the prefix > is redundant. But I can still add support for it if there is a popular request. I think this idea sounds sound. You could easily let zfsboot support both by just having it skip over a 'zfs:' prefix if it sees one. -- John Baldwin
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