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Date:      Wed, 07 Sep 2011 13:23:30 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org, Artem Belevich <art@FreeBSD.org>, =?windows-1252?Q?Martin_Matu=9Aka?= <mm@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: "can't load 'kernel'" on ZFS root
Message-ID:  <4E674622.3040705@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110907094554.GB1674@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <20110907044800.GA96277@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <CAFqOu6jv93WKBLMDKPQCOKfOF6Q4zq6PWKQBjSgfWyVvkM4jFw@mail.gmail.com> <4E673751.5080503@FreeBSD.org> <20110907094554.GB1674@garage.freebsd.pl>

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on 07/09/2011 12:45 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> The zpool.cache file contains pools that are automatically imported at
> system start-up. There might be pools visible in the system that are not
> suppose to be automatically imported (eg. a pool on iSCSI disks on
> secondary cluster node - importing such pool automatically will corrupt
> the data).

What about providing a special case for a pool from which we want to boot?  Erm,
not boot, but to mount a root filesystem.

I suppose that we must know name/ID of that pool and if it is not present in
zpool.cache, then we could try to find it.  Or is this dangerous too?

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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