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Date:      Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:59:13 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: zfs: allow to mount root from a pool not in zpool.cache
Message-ID:  <506C52C1.10405@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121003085326.GC1386@garage.freebsd.pl>
References:  <505DE715.8020806@FreeBSD.org> <DA42C8E9-BFFF-4C5A-9E14-1D50EAEFA669@scsiguy.com> <20121003085326.GC1386@garage.freebsd.pl>

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on 03/10/2012 11:53 Pawel Jakub Dawidek said the following:
> GEOM tasting would most likely require rewriting the code heavly.

Almost all lines are already there (for device search by guid).  Only some
reshuffling would be needed :-)

> Also note that you can have pools in you system that do match your
> hostid, but user decided to keep exported and such pool should not be
> configured automatically. Not a huge problem probably as there is pool
> status somewhere in the metadata that we can use to see if the pool is
> exported or not.

Yeah, either using host id and pool status or keeping zpool.cache as just a list
of pools to auto-import.  Or some combination.

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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