> Henri Hennebert wrote: > > Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:17:24PM -0700, Joe Peterson wrote: > >>> Glad you got it back! Yes, when I was first playing with ZFS, I noti= > ced > >>> that booting between single and multi user mode could make the pools > >>> "invisible". Import seemed to bring them back... > >> > >> I did go into single-user mode and attempt to do ZFS-related commands,= > > >> which might explain the "no datasets available" once I was back in > >> multiuser! I would classify that as a bug, and one which is going to > >> cause all sorts of hair-pulling for administrators in the future. I > >> wonder what it's caused by. > >=20 > > In single user / is read only and so /boot/zfs/zpool.cache can't be=20 > > created/updated > > But it's still readable. The issue is that hostid isn't set (by=20 > /etc/rc.d/hostid).
if the root is read only, as the case of diskless/dataless boot, it's the fact that /boot/zfs/zpool.cache cannot be used which causes the problem, so adding zpool import -a solves the issue. danny _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
