Booting from a ZFS pool exported on another system.

[Kenneth Vestergaard]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd at freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Is this a bug in zfsboot, or simply just the way things work?
>
> This was implemented that way, but I don't like this behaviour too.
> I was beaten by this in the past myself. I just looked at OpenSolaris
> code and they only skip destroyed pools, which is better than what we
> do. Could you try the following patch:
>
>        http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zfsimpl.c.patch

How'd that work when it comes to mounting the root pool? At that point, it'd
still be exported, so I'm guessing something would barf?

I got my image booting by simply creating the image before exporting the pool.
I did a 'zfs unmount imgroot' first, but I don't know if I can be sure that all
buffers are synced. Nonetheless, it worked.

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Kenneth Vestergaard