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Date:      Sat, 01 Dec 2012 18:29:59 +0200
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: [HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting
Message-ID:  <50BA3087.5030904@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121201133603.GF1399@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <50B6598B.20200@FreeBSD.org> <E1TeKRw-00088u-Bd@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <20121201133603.GF1399@garage.freebsd.pl>

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on 01/12/2012 15:36 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:51:48AM +0200, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>> GREATE!!!! in a diskless environment, /boot is read only, and the
>> zpool.cache issue has been bothering me ever since, there was no way (and
>> I tried) to re route it.
> 
> I believe zpool.cache is not required only for root pool anymore and that
> you still need it if you want non-root pools to be automatically configured
> after reboot. Am I right, Andriy?

Yes, definitely.

> Zpool.cache basically tells ZFS which pools should be automatically 
> imported and file systems mounted. You can have disks in your system with
> ZFS pools that should not be auto-imported and zpool.cache is the way to
> tell the difference.


-- 
Andriy Gapon



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