Hello Eric,

Thursday, October 4, 2007, 5:54:06 PM, you wrote:

ES> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 05:22:58AM -0700, Ivan Wang wrote:
>> > This bug was rendered moot via 6528732 in build
>> > snv_68 (and s10_u5).  We
>> > now store physical devices paths with the vnodes, so
>> > even though the
>> > SATA framework doesn't correctly support open by
>> > devid in early boot, we
>> 
>> But if I read it right, there is still a problem in SATA framework (failing 
>> ldi_open_by_devid,) right?
>> If this problem is framework-wide, it might just bite back some time in the 
>> future.
>> 

ES> Yes, there is still a bug in the SATA framework, in that
ES> ldi_open_by_devid() doesn't work early in boot.  Opening by device path
ES> works so long as you don't recable your boot devices.  If we had open by
ES> devid working in early boot, then this wouldn't be a problem.

Even if someone re-cables sata disks couldn't we fallback to "read zfs
label from all available disks and find our pool and import it"?


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 Robert Milkowski                           mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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