Re: zfs refuses to load pool on boot, zpool denies import


zfs refuses to load pool on boot, zpool denies ...
\ Volker (13 Jul 2007)
. \ Dan Nelson (13 Jul 2007)
. . \ Volker (13 Jul 2007)
. . . \ Thomas Sparrevohn (14 Jul 2007)
. . . \ Thomas Sparrevohn (14 Jul 2007)
. . . . \ Dan Nelson (14 Jul 2007)
. . . . \ Dan Nelson (14 Jul 2007)
. . . . . \ Thomas Sparrevohn (14 Jul 2007)

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Subject:	Re: zfs refuses to load pool on boot, zpool denies import
Group:	Freebsd-current
From:	Thomas Sparrevohn
Date:	14 Jul 2007

On Saturday 14 July 2007 15:52:19 Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> > I got burned by that one as well - I am vondering if ZFS should check
> > system.uuid as a fall back - It does not seem correct that we have to
> > run specific startup shell scripts in order to get a filesystem to
> > work
>
> Might work in some cases, but none of my systems have the system.uuid
> kenv. I'm not even sure how my zfs root volume gets mounted; the
> kernel has to mount it to even find init, so it does blindly mount
> zpools in some cases. Maybe the kernl mount logic assumes if it can
> only see one zpool, it's got to be the right one? :)
>

Hmm - I must admit I did not think about that - but it looks like that if
hostid does not find system.uuid it falls back on uuidgen(1) and uuidgen(2) -
so it should be possibly to get a sensible value prior to rc.d
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