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Date:      Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:07:35 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
To:        Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cache devices come up as dsk/original_device_name in zpools
Message-ID:  <alpine.GSO.2.01.1110140904400.4501@freddy.simplesystems.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111014090000.GA66602@icarus.home.lan>
References:  <4E97F710.8000004@fsn.hu> <20111014090000.GA66602@icarus.home.lan>

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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
-- 
Bob Friesenhahn
bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us, http://www.simplesystems.org/users/bfriesen/
GraphicsMagick Maintainer,    http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/



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