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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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