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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2018 13:10:50 -0400
From:      Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ZFS i/o error in recent 12.0
Message-ID:  <67af9c19-0a42-a435-d922-1e5ce23d1d1c@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <888ab314-fb1b-0e08-89d9-0447e7943b76@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201803192300.w2JN04fx007127@kx.openedu.org> <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803200759260.66427@mail.fig.ol.no> <888ab314-fb1b-0e08-89d9-0447e7943b76@FreeBSD.org>

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On 2018-03-20 10:29, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 20/03/2018 09:09, Trond Endrestøl wrote:
>> This step has been big no-no in the past. Never leave your 
>> bootpool/rootpool in an exported state if you intend to boot from it. 
>> For all I know, this advice might be superstition for the present 
>> versions of FreeBSD.
> 
> Yes, it is.  That does not matter at all now.
> 
>> From what I can tell from the above, you never created a new 
>> zpool.cache and copied it to its rightful place.
> 
> For the _rooot_ pool zpool.cache does not matter as well.
> It matters only for auto-import of additional pools, if any.
> 

As I mentioned previously, the error reported by the user is before it
is even possible to read zpool.cache, so it is definitely not the source
of the problem.

-- 
Allan Jude



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