Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:36:41 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: NanoBSD with ZFS Message-ID: <20070427173641.GB51688@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <20070427170159.GA458@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> References: <20070425110558.GA28614@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE> <20070427142706.GL49413@garage.freebsd.pl> <20070427170159.GA458@mime.TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
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--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:01:59PM +0200, oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de= wrote: > Hello Pawel, >=20 > Eines schoenen Tages schrieb Pawel Jakub Dawidek: > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:05:58PM +0200, oschonef@techfak.uni-bielefel= d.de wrote: > > > I'm currently experimenting with NanoBSD and want to integrate ZFS. > > > Unfortunatly ZFS maintains the zpool.cache in /boot/zfs, but the file= system > > > is mounted read-only and this file cannot be written or changed. > > > Would it be possible to add a tunable or sysctl to ZFS, which allows > > > to specify the location of the zpool.cache file? > [..] > > > > Creating a symlink /boot/zfs/zpool.cache -> /etc/zfs/zpool.cache doesn't > > help? >=20 > Unfortunatly not! "zpool create" tries to write to /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache > (possibly a temporary) which cannot be written. If I symlink > /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache -> /etc/zfs/.zpool.cache, I end up with the > cache being written to /etc/zfs/.zpool.cache. This file however is then n= ot > copied or moved to /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, but of the symlinks. > If I link /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache to /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, the file is > populated. > After a reboot however the file, which was copied there by the rc.initdis= kless, > seems not to containt, what zfs expects, since the filesystems are not > mounted and I need to import the pool by hand. And /boot/zfs -> /etc/zfs symlink? --=20 Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGMjSpForvXbEpPzQRApn4AJ9L+V2R3zLs2tQ8p6M9m6nRNOIqBACfc2d7 Cz44yprWL7w5TpDgW9Vjgik= =1COA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --K8nIJk4ghYZn606h--
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