NanoBSD with ZFS

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:01:59PM +0200, oschonef at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote:
> Hello Pawel,
> 
> Eines schoenen Tages schrieb Pawel Jakub Dawidek:
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:05:58PM +0200, oschonef at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote:
> > > I'm currently experimenting with NanoBSD and want to integrate ZFS.
> > > Unfortunatly ZFS maintains the zpool.cache in /boot/zfs, but the filesystem
> > > is mounted read-only and this file cannot be written or changed.
> > > Would it be possible to add a tunable or sysctl to ZFS, which allows
> > > to specify the location of the zpool.cache file?
> [..]
> >
> > Creating a symlink /boot/zfs/zpool.cache -> /etc/zfs/zpool.cache doesn't
> > help?
> 
> Unfortunatly not! "zpool create" tries to write to /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache
> (possibly a temporary) which cannot be written. If I symlink
> /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache -> /etc/zfs/.zpool.cache, I end up with the
> cache being written to /etc/zfs/.zpool.cache. This file however is then not
> copied or moved to /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, but of the symlinks.
> If I link /boot/zfs/.zpool.cache to /etc/zfs/zpool.cache, the file is
> populated.
> After a reboot however the file, which was copied there by the rc.initdiskless,
> seems not to containt, what zfs expects, since the filesystems are not
> mounted and I need to import the pool by hand.

And /boot/zfs -> /etc/zfs symlink?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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