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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