Re: [zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-13 Thread Lin Ling
Douglas Atique wrote: Now that I know *what*, could you perhaps explain to my *why*? I understood zpool import and export operations much as mount and unmount, like maybe some checks on the integrity of the pool and updates to some structure on the OS to maintain the imported/exported state o

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Atique
Hi Lin, A few moments after replying to your post, I had an idea. I had tweaked with almost every part of the script but I couldn't figure out what the difference was between the script and the manual execution. The difference is (as I found later) that when I created the ZFS root fs by hand,

[zfs-discuss] Re: Re: Re: Re: ZFS Boot manual setup in b65

2007-06-13 Thread Douglas Atique
> Once you switch over to zfs root, adding new hardware > should just behave > as what you expect on ufs root. > Copy /devices and /dev is just a one-time thing (as > part of > 'installation') to setup the initial zfs root. Ok, but what about the first boot? Why can't /devices and /dev be generat