Re: How does one add a zpool name to either /etc/zfs/zpool.cache or /boot/zfs/zpool.cache ?

In reply to: Dennis Clarke : "How does one add a zpool name to either /etc/zfs/zpool.cache or /boot/zfs/zpool.cache ?"
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From: Alexander Motin <mav_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:22:12 UTC

On 14.08.2025 14:55, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> However neither of those cache files seem to hold information about
> anything other than the pool created during installation.

Pools should be added there when you import them manually and removed 
when you export.  On reboot they should stay there to be imported next time.

> There is a cachefile property in a zpool but that vanishes after a
> reboot.

cachefile property usually should be used only if you don't want your 
pools to appear in the default cachefile processed on boot.

-- 
Alexander Motin