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Date:      Sun, 3 Nov 2019 17:19:03 -0800
From:      Xin Li <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Ravi Pokala <rpokala@freebsd.org>, Toomas Soome <tsoome@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r354283 - in head: stand/libsa/zfs sys/cddl/boot/zfs
Message-ID:  <61bed957-a0c5-bb95-8138-13d00df9d44f@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <AC86E653-444A-4EBD-8379-BBA53BD160D3@panasas.com>
References:  <201911031325.xA3DPl3B080386@repo.freebsd.org> <AC86E653-444A-4EBD-8379-BBA53BD160D3@panasas.com>

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Subject: Re: svn commit: r354283 - in head: stand/libsa/zfs sys/cddl/boot/zfs
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(chosen a random message)

On 2019-11-03 15:30, Ravi Pokala wrote:
> Uh....
>=20
> I've had a log device in my boot-pool for months, and have booted witho=
ut issue:
>=20
>     [threepio:~] rpokala% zpool status zroot
>       pool: zroot
>      state: ONLINE
>       scan: scrub repaired 0 in 0 days 00:04:36 with 0 errors on Mon Oc=
t 28 03:10:59 2019
>     config:
>=20
>         NAME        STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
>         zroot       ONLINE       0     0     0
>           nvd1p4    ONLINE       0     0     0
>         logs
>           nvd0p1    ONLINE       0     0     0
>=20
>     errors: No known data errors


This is not supported, and it's not trivial to support it, because in
order to support it, the bootloader would have to know how to replay
zilogs, which would add quite a lot of code to it.

It's unlikely that you actually hit a problem, however, because the
critical contents to boot the system is rarely written to, and as a
result it's quite likely that the readable, consistent state of your
/boot/ is good enough to boot the system.  That's said, it's still
because you were lucky, and the code was not designed to work that way...=


Cheers,


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