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Date:      Wed, 07 Sep 2011 12:20:17 +0300
From:      Andriy Gapon <avg@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Artem Belevich <art@FreeBSD.org>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@FreeBSD.org>, =?windows-1252?Q?Martin_Matu=9Aka?= <mm@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: "can't load 'kernel'" on ZFS root
Message-ID:  <4E673751.5080503@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAFqOu6jv93WKBLMDKPQCOKfOF6Q4zq6PWKQBjSgfWyVvkM4jFw@mail.gmail.com>
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on 07/09/2011 10:35 Artem Belevich said the following:
> It makes me wonder, though -- if we're probing devices anyways, why is
> zpool.cache existence mandatory? According to the name it's a *cache*,
> presumably to speed up zpool detection on a normal boot. Perhaps we
> can fall back to probing all drives if zpool.cache is missing. Slower
> boot definitely beats no booting at all.

Very good point indeed.

Pawel, Martin, do you know how the relevant code works?  I suspect that you do
:-)  Maybe this could be improved trivially?...

-- 
Andriy Gapon



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