> No. There is nothing else the OS can do when it > cannot mount the root > filesystem. I have the impression (didn't check though) that the pool is made available by just setting some information in its main superblock or something alike (sorry for the imprecisions in ZFS jargon). I understand the OS knows which pool/fs it wants to mount onto /. It also knows that the root filesystem is ZFS, so it could in theory be able to import the pool at boot, I suppose. So I wonder if the OS could prompt the user on the console to import the pool or even use some (additional) boot options to instruct it to either import the pool without asking or reboot without panicking (e.g. -B auto-import-exported-root-pool=true/false). I guess this would be an RFE rather than a bug. Any thoughts on it?
> That being said, it should have a nicer > message (using > FMA-style knowledge articles) that tell you what's > actually going > wrong. There is already a bug filed against this > failure mode. Off-topic question, but I cannot resist. What is "FMA-style knowledge articles"? -- Douglas This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
