Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 11:03:05 -0600 From: dweimer <dweimer@dweimer.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SPAM: Re: ZFS root, error 2 when mounting root Message-ID: <5e43c05e188e34a05f9ccb8f3ebe3380@dweimer.net> In-Reply-To: <512B8AB5.4070504@gmail.com> References: <5129E079.4040906@gmail.com> <F3EDE81C-EFE5-404D-9559-E4E7AAF14D60@kraus-haus.org> <512B7FD0.6040405@gmail.com> <D011786B-A200-4F2A-94EA-B8C7BF741D1B@kraus-haus.org> <512B8AB5.4070504@gmail.com>
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On 02/25/2013 10:00 am, bw wrote:
>>
>>> That was my understanding, too, but the instructions on the wiki say
>>> there's no need to copy the cache file. In fact, there is no cache
>>> file to copy, since the pool is created with
>>>
>>> zpool create -o altroot=/mnt -O canmount=off zroot mirror
>>> /dev/gpt/g0zfs /dev/gpt/g1zfs
>>>
>>> No cache file. The wiki article was changed recently to eliminate
>>> that part, the message on the wiki is: "Fix so that the default
>>> instructions does not install data directly to the zroot pool.
>>> Simplify instructions regarding cache files, they are no longer
>>> needed. Fixes and cleanups."
>>>
>>> Either the instructions are wrong, or something in my script is. I
>>> assume it's my script.
>>
>> The instructions noted above are now INCORRECT for 9.0 (I have not
>> tried this with 9.1 yet) as you MUST manually put the zpool.cache file
>> in place for it to work correctly (I tried a couple different
>> variations when I first setup my systems a few months ago and learned
>> this the hard way :-) I have *lost* of experience with ZFS under
>> Solaris 10 but am relatively new (about a year) to FreeBSD.
>
> I tried it on 9.1, failed to specify.
There is a change coming down through the stable or current channel,
that doesn't require the zpool.cache file. But I don't believe that it
has made it's to any of the releases. I haven't been able to track down
the original message yet, but here is some of the relevant text from a
reply on the freebsd-stable mailing list, the subject of the thread is
"[HEADSUP] zfs root pool mounting", if you chose to search for it on
your own.
>>> on 28/11/2012 20:35 Andriy Gapon said the following:
>>>>
>>>> Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for
>>>> root filesystem
>>>> mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in
>>>> zpool.cache. Now it is
>>>> automatically discovered by probing available GEOM providers.
>>>> The new scheme is believed to be more flexible. For example, it
>>>> allows to prepare
>>>> a new root pool at one system, then export it and then boot from it
>>>> on a new
>>>> system without doing any extra/magical steps with zpool.cache. It
>>>> could also be
>>>> convenient after zpool split and in some other situations.
>>>>
>>>> The change was introduced via multiple commits, the latest relevant
>>>> revision in
>>>> head is r243502. The changes are partially MFC-ed, the remaining
>>>> parts are
>>>> scheduled to be MFC-ed soon.
--
Thanks,
Dean E. Weimer
http://www.dweimer.net/
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