Ceri Davies wrote:
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 11:49:48PM -0700, Matthew Ahrens wrote:
James McPherson wrote:
On 10/12/06, Steve Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Where is the ZFS configuration (zpools, mountpoints, filesystems,
etc) data stored within Solaris? Is there something akin to vfstab
or perhaps a database?
Have a look at the contents of /etc/zfs for an in-filesystem artefact
of zfs. Apart from that, the information required is stored on the
disk itself.
There is really good documentation on ZFS at the ZFS community
pages found via http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs.
FYI, /etc/zfs/zpool.cache just tells us what pools to open when you boot
up. Everything else (mountpoints, filesystems, etc) is stored in the
pool itself.
What happens if the file does not exist? Are the devices searched for
metadata?
Ceri
If the file does not exist than ZFS will not attempt to open any
pools at boot. You must issue an explicit 'zpool import' command to
probe the available devices for metadata to re-discover your pools.
-Mark
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