Hi Sanjay,
jan damborsky wrote: > >> 326-336 - can you verify that this is needed with the changes for zfs >> boot. > > I have removed all code dealing with "zpool.cache" file. That code > originally took care of having etc/zfs/zpool.cache in list of files > which need to be in boot archive. I have installed 91 on ZFS root > and zpool.cache is not being added in filelist.ramdisk and is not > part of boot archive. Searching more, I have found appropriate section in PSARC/2006/370 - ZFS as a Root File System referring to this: "Early in the kernel startup stage, before the zfs root file can be mounted, the state of the root pool must be imported. The zpool.cache file cannot be read at this time because it isn't in the boot archive (see PSARC/2006/525 - Newboot Sparc). However, the information for the root pool is available in the metadata stored in the boot disk (which, by definition, is a vdev in the root pool). So the metadata used to make the root pool active is read directly from the boot disk." However, looking at the LiveCD, filelist.ramdisk contains entry for "etc/zfs/zpool.cache" file: $ grep zfs /boot/solaris/filelist.ramdisk etc/zfs/zpool.cache So, it seems that more changes would need to be done on LiveCD and in Slim install with respect to the integration of ZFS root project. I have also noticed following when looking at nv91 installed on ZFS root using SXCE text installer: * root is no longer "legacy" mounted * swap & dump are on ZFS volumes That said, these are not directly related to the "GRUB" issue addressed by the fix, but should I file new CR to address all remaining ZFS root changes ? Jan
