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Subject: Re: ZFS and ISCSI
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On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 16:50:02 +0100, Danny Schales <dan@latech.edu> wrote:

> It seems that ZFS and ISCSI don't play well at boot time in FreeBSD 10.
>   ZFS is started fairly early in the boot sequence, well before ISCSI is
> initiated, so ISCSI based pools aren't detected.  Should there be a
> stage 2 ZFS rc.d script that rescans for pools and mounts the
> filesystems after ISCSI initiation if ISCSI and ZFS are enabled?  I
> don't know the rc setup well enough to create one myself.  Right now,
> I'm simply using rc.local, but I would think an official rc.d solution
> would be preferable in the long run.
>
> Danny Schales
>

As soon as a disk with ZFS is connected GEOM/ZFS should detect it  
automatically. But I could be wrong.

Ronald.