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Subject: Re: cache devices come up as dsk/original_device_name in zpools
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On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>
> I'm not sure how to go about doing that, especially on a system which
> lacks /boot/zfs/zpool.cache.  A one-time "zpool export" then a reboot, I
> imagine, would suffice, but I'm not sure if export actually changes the
> metadata on the disk itself or just updates the zpool.cache file.

Clearly export changes disk metadata since a zfs pool knows if it is 
(was) currently imported on a machine and will complain if an attempt 
is made to import the pool on another machine without it being 
exported first.

Bob
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