Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:28:27 +0200 From: Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org> To: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG, Anonymous <swell.k@gmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: zfs boot vs loader Message-ID: <20091014062827.GC1696@garage.freebsd.pl> In-Reply-To: <4AD45A8D.4070605@icyb.net.ua> References: <4AD3220B.5030502@icyb.net.ua> <86ws30ikfw.fsf@gmail.com> <4AD45A8D.4070605@icyb.net.ua>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 01:46:37PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied! > I think that I figured it out with your help. > > 'unload' does indeed unload zpool.cache and the latter is needed for proper zfs > root mounting. > 'boot /other/kernel' executes some loader scripts and zpool.cache gets loaded in > this case (because of the settings in defaults/loader.conf). > When doing manual 'load xxx' and then just 'boot' no loader scripts are executed > and zpool.cache does not get loaded. In this case one has to load it manually > using the suggested 'load -t xxx' approach. Could you repeat what you were doing but with vfs.zfs.debug set to 1 from the loader? You should see some messages about missing file, maybe we should do them visible always and not after increasing debug level? -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFK1W+KForvXbEpPzQRAsAXAJ9LWdtKzOwrlZAfq6yVOZCnGWB8JgCfWSUr tqaZYC/lZtc5Do9/Yf9z6M8= =A5Tp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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