On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:53:37AM -0600, Mark Maybee wrote: > 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.
OK, that's fine then.
Ceri
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