Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2012 23:44:47 +0300 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org> To: Chuck Burns <break19@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: zfsboot and zfsloader: normalization of filesystem names Message-ID: <5070983F.7010803@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <50632ED0.2050901@gmail.com> References: <505DEF5F.8060401@FreeBSD.org> <201209260941.29016.jhb@freebsd.org> <50632ED0.2050901@gmail.com>
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on 26/09/2012 19:35 Chuck Burns said the following: > 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. > I made it optionally supported. Thank you. -- Andriy Gapon
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