conf/120194: [patch] UFS volumes on ZVOLs cannot be fsck'd at boot

[Pawel Jakub Dawidek]

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 12:00:07PM +0000, Thomas Backman wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR conf/120194; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Thomas Backman <serenity at exscape.org>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org,
>  freebsd-rc at freebsd.org
> Cc:  
> Subject: Re: conf/120194: [patch] UFS volumes on ZVOLs cannot be fsck'd at boot
> Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:49:42 +0200
> 
>  This bug is still relevant and unfixed as of 8.0-BETA2, although I ran  
>  into it by being unable to mount ZVOLs using fstab, since /dev/zvol is  
>  populated after mountcritlocal runs.
>  My fix was to move ZFS to before mountcritlocal, since the root is  
>  already mounted R/W, but I suppose this fix is even better since it  
>  solves the fsck problem as well, which I haven't ran in to yet.
>  It would be nice to see this easy fix implemented!

The problem with proposed patch is that it moves hostid script to before
root is mounted read-write and hostid can create /etc/hostid file.

Try this patch instead:

	http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/zvol_fsck.patch

It splits hostid generation from storing it. Now ZVOLs can be
initialized before fsck runs.

-- 
Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
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