"can't load 'kernel'" on ZFS root

Andriy Gapon avg at FreeBSD.org
Wed Sep 7 10:23:35 UTC 2011


on 07/09/2011 12:45 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> The zpool.cache file contains pools that are automatically imported at
> system start-up. There might be pools visible in the system that are not
> suppose to be automatically imported (eg. a pool on iSCSI disks on
> secondary cluster node - importing such pool automatically will corrupt
> the data).

What about providing a special case for a pool from which we want to boot?  Erm,
not boot, but to mount a root filesystem.

I suppose that we must know name/ID of that pool and if it is not present in
zpool.cache, then we could try to find it.  Or is this dangerous too?

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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