Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:35:28 -0500 From: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: zfsboot and zfsloader: normalization of filesystem names Message-ID: <50632ED0.2050901@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201209260941.29016.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <505DEF5F.8060401@FreeBSD.org> <201209260941.29016.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 9/26/2012 8:41 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday, September 22, 2012 1:03:27 pm Andriy Gapon wrote: >> >> Currently zfsboot uses the following format to specify a ZFS filesystem name in >> a full file path: >> poolname:filesystem/name:/path/to/file >> ZFS loader uses this format: >> zfs:poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file >> >> The following patchset: >> http://people.freebsd.org/~avg/zfs-boot-naming.diff >> unifies the naming. >> zfsboot format will be: poolname/filesystemname:/path/to/file >> Note that it is still different from zfsloader - "zfs:" prefix is missing. This >> is because unlike the loader zfsboot supports only ZFS filesystem, so the prefix >> is redundant. But I can still add support for it if there is a popular request. > > I think this idea sounds sound. You could easily let zfsboot support both by just > having it skip over a 'zfs:' prefix if it sees one. > My $0.02 -- Keep "zfs:" in for consistency's sake. -- Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com>
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