[zfs] Mounting from (...) failed with error 19

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Oct 19, 2010, at 9:38 PM, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote:

> On 20.10.2010 2:33, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>> What about the attached patch?  I'm going to give it a swirl soon.  The
>>> difference is that it tests whether dev begins with /dev/.
>> 
>> Interesting. I've been thinking about this too, but isn't
>> exactly fool-proof. When devfs is the root file system,
>> you can use "ufs:da0s1a" to refer to the device special
>> file. It seems inconsistent to have "ufs:da0s1" fail when
>> ufs:/dev/da0s1" works (a real scenario with USB based mass
>> storage devices -- root mount is unheld as soon as umass
>> is created, but before daX exists for it).
>> 
>> This patch at least covers the problem cases with a single
>> strstr(), and we may get away with the inconsistency given
>> above by documenting it properly.
>> 
>> Andrey: any thoughts?
> 
> Currently usage information in parse_dir_ask() says that device should
> be specified with "/dev/". But conf0 does not use "/dev/". Also,  Marcel,
> do you have any plans write some documentation with examples about using
> of new features?

Yes, this will be documented.

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Marcel Moolenaar
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