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Subject: Re: zfsboot and zfsloader: normalization of filesystem names
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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