Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB & zpool.cache & zpool import

2009-03-24 Thread Blake
+1 On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Damon Atkins wrote: > PS it would be nice to have a zpool diskinfo reports  if the > device belongs to a zpool imported or not, and all the details about any > zpool it can find on the disk. e.g. file-systems (zdb is only for ZFS > "engineers" says the man pa

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB & zpool.cache & zpool import

2009-03-24 Thread Damon Atkins
The zpool.cache file makes clustering complex. {Assume the man page is still correct} From the zpool man page: cachefile=path | "none" Controls the location of where the pool configuration is cached. Discovering all pools on system startup requires a cached copy of the configuration data tha

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB & zpool.cache & zpool import

2009-03-24 Thread Richard Elling
Damon Atkins wrote: The zpool.cache file makes clustering complex. {Assume the man page is still correct} The man page is correct. zpool.cache helps make clustering feasible because it differentiates those file systems which are of interest from those which are not. This is particularly impor

Re: [zfs-discuss] Zpools on USB & zpool.cache & zpool import

2009-03-23 Thread Damon Atkins
The zpool.cache file makes clustering complex. {Assume the man page is still correct} From the zpool man page: cachefile=path | "none" Controls the location of where the pool configuration is cached. Discovering all pools on system startup requires a cached copy of the configuration data that