Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:20:17 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Artem Belevich <art@FreeBSD.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, =?windows-1252?Q?Martin_Matu=9Aka?= <mm@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: "can't load 'kernel'" on ZFS root Message-ID: <4E673751.5080503@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <CAFqOu6jv93WKBLMDKPQCOKfOF6Q4zq6PWKQBjSgfWyVvkM4jFw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20110907044800.GA96277@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <CAFqOu6jv93WKBLMDKPQCOKfOF6Q4zq6PWKQBjSgfWyVvkM4jFw@mail.gmail.com>
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on 07/09/2011 10:35 Artem Belevich said the following: > It makes me wonder, though -- if we're probing devices anyways, why is > zpool.cache existence mandatory? According to the name it's a *cache*, > presumably to speed up zpool detection on a normal boot. Perhaps we > can fall back to probing all drives if zpool.cache is missing. Slower > boot definitely beats no booting at all. Very good point indeed. Pawel, Martin, do you know how the relevant code works? I suspect that you do :-) Maybe this could be improved trivially?... -- Andriy Gapon
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