From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 17:01:59 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18BB1106567C for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: from mail.h3q.com (mail.h3q.com [213.73.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 555BB8FC26 for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cryx-freebsd@h3q.com) Received: (qmail 50062 invoked from network); 26 Mar 2009 17:01:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO Maya.local) (smtpsend@85.179.6.23) by mail.h3q.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 26 Mar 2009 17:01:57 -0000 Message-ID: <49CBB504.8000004@h3q.com> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:01:56 +0100 From: Philipp Wuensche User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Macintosh/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <49CB7BC8.1010905@h3q.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Buganini Subject: Re: unable to boot ZFS with gptzfsboot from an exported zpool X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:01:59 -0000 Buganini wrote: > It need /boot/zfs/zpool.cache to locate zfs IIRC, > and http://blogs.freebsdish.org/lulf/2008/12/16/setting-up-a-zfs-only-system/ > export & import zpool to make /boot/zfs/zpool.cache up-to-date, > so I guess exporting zpool delete the record in zpool.cache, > then it can't locate your zpool. No, in this state of booting zpool.cache is not used in any way. This problem happens even before the kernel is loaded. An uptodate zpool.cache is not the problem here. greetings, philipp