svn commit: r365249 - head

[Ryan Moeller]

On 9/2/20 11:43 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 02/09/2020 18:23, Ryan Moeller wrote:
>> On 9/2/20 10:28 AM, Warner Losh wrote:
>>> Author: imp
>>> Date: Wed Sep  2 14:28:54 2020
>>> New Revision: 365249
>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365249
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>     Add note about needing to manually import the zfs pools or update
>>>     /etc/rc.d due to the cache file moving to /etc.
>>>
>>> Modified:
>>>     head/UPDATING
>>>
>>> Modified: head/UPDATING
>>> ==============================================================================
>>> --- head/UPDATING    Wed Sep  2 12:57:34 2020    (r365248)
>>> +++ head/UPDATING    Wed Sep  2 14:28:54 2020    (r365249)
>>> @@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 13.x IS SLOW:
>>>        scenarios have been tested and fixed, but rebuilding kernels without
>>>        rebuilding world may fail.
>>>    +    The ZFS cache file has moved from /boot to /etc to match the OpenZFS
>>> +    upstream default. This means your zpool won't auto import until you
>>> +    upgrade your /etc/rc.d files or you import them manually.
>>> +
>>>    20200824:
>>>        The resume code now notifies devd with the 'kernel' system
>>>        rather than the old 'kern' subsystem to be consistent with
>> Thanks, enough people seemed to be getting tripped up by this.
> I think that this is a very useful note.
>
> But I do not see a direct connection between the change of zpool.cache location
> and the new ZFS's not automatically importing zpool.cache pools on boot.
>

True, the real reason is that the kernel module in OpenZFS does not 
autoimport pools.
Instead we explicitly "zpool import -a" in one of the ZFS rc scripts. 
I'll amend the
UPDATING message.

-Ryan