New ZFSv28 patchset for 8-STABLE

Krzysztof Dajka alteriks at gmail.com
Sat Dec 18 19:59:02 UTC 2010


On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Martin Matuska <mm at freebsd.org> wrote:
> The information about pools is stored in /boot/zfs/zpool.cache
> If this file doesn't contain correct information, your system pools will
> not be discovered.
>
> In v28, importing a pool with the "altroot" option does not touch the
> cache file (it has to be specified manually with a option to zpool import).
>
> Regarding rollback - rolling back a live root file system is not
> recommended.
>
> Dňa 18.12.2010 19:43, Krzysztof Dajka  wrote / napísal(a):
>> t my system working
>> again. I did:
>> zpool import -o altroot=/tank tank
>> chroot /tank
>> reboot
>>
>> Can anyone explain why chroot to /tank is needed?
>

I used 8.2BETA1 memstick image to import and rollback. Thanks for
explanation, few moments ago I would argue that zpool(1) didn't
mention cachefile :)


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