On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 04:37:06AM -0700, Douglas Atique wrote: > > 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? >
Sure, that would seem possible. Keep in mind that the boot environment is extremely limited when dealing with devices. For example, I don't know if it's possible for a grub plugin to search all attached devices, which would be necessary for pool import. > > Off-topic question, but I cannot resist. What is "FMA-style knowledge > articles"? > See the Fault Management community: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/fm/ As well as the event registry: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/events-registry/ - Eric -- Eric Schrock, Solaris Kernel Development http://blogs.sun.com/eschrock _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
