> I was asking if it was going to be replaced because it would really > simplify ZFS root. > > Dick. > > [0] going from: > http://solaristhings.blogspot.com/2006/06/zfs-root-on-solaris-part-3.html
I don't know about "replaced", but presumably with the addition of hostid to the pool data, it could be enhanced. For instance, VxVM has a similar file 'volboot'. It's needed to import any diskgroup that isn't "normal" (using entire disks). So boot-time imports consist of both scanning devices, looking for VxVM signatures, then importing any with the correct hostid and flags, then attempting to import other things explicicly mentioned in the volboot file. Since you can put a ZFS pool in files, you're going to have to have a cache or something like it since you're never going to scan them for importable pools. Sone one possible enhancement in ZFS could be that even if the cache didn't have a given (full disk) pool, it could be scanned and imported anyway. I don't know if such a feature would be useful for the implementation of ZFS root or not. Either way it would have to wait for the hostid stuff to go in. -- Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/ Got some Dr Pepper? San Francisco, CA bay area < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. > _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
