zfs boot and fstab chicken and egg problem

John Hay jhay at meraka.org.za
Sun Sep 27 05:13:17 UTC 2009


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:39:45PM +0200, Jilles Tjoelker wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 04:37:36PM +0200, John Hay wrote:
> > I have setup a zfs only system using 2 mirrored disks and gpart, using
> > gptzfsboot to boot. That part is working well. The problem comes when
> > you need to add things like the linproc filesystem. If you add that to
> > fstab, the rc scripts will try to mount that before the zfs filesystems
> > and fail because rcorder put mountcritlocal before zfs.
> 
> You can probably work around this using the "late" option in fstab.

Ahhh, thanks, once you know what to look for it becomes a lot easier. :-)
I only found it mentioned in mount(8). Should it not be mentioned in
fstab(5) too? noauto is there.

John
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