r253070 and "disappearing" zpool

[Glen Barber]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 04:33:58PM +0100, Johannes Totz wrote:
> On 24/07/2013 12:47, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >on 22/07/2013 23:38 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> >>On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:29:40AM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >>>I think that this setup (on ZFS level) is quite untypical, although not
> >>>impossible on FreeBSD (and perhaps only FreeBSD).
> >>>It's untypical because you have separate boot pool (where loader, loader.conf
> >>>and kernel are taken from) and root pool (where "/" is mounted from).
> >>
> >>As I said elsewhere, it is pretty typical when full disk encryption is
> >>used.
> >
> >I am judging by the number of reports / amount of feedback so far.
> 
> I'm using a similar configuration too, where I have a USB stick with
> unencrypted kernel and /boot bits which load a GELI keyfile (from
> its own pool zboot), and then the rest of the system starts up from
> the fully encrypted HDD (from another pool zsystem, so boot and
> rootfs are on different pools).
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the problem though. What exactly "broke"
> after your commit? The pool that contains the bits that would
> normally go to /boot is not imported automatically, but the rest is
> working (ie. /boot symlink pointing to nowhere)? Or does booting
> somehow fail?
> 

"/boot" disappears and becomes a broken symlink.

Glen

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