NanoBSD with ZFS

Pawel Jakub Dawidek pjd at FreeBSD.org
Fri Apr 27 14:27:34 UTC 2007


On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:05:58PM +0200, oschonef at techfak.uni-bielefeld.de wrote:
> Hello Pawel, Hello List,
> 
> first of all kudos to Pawel for Portinmg ZFS to FreeBSD. Thanks a lot :)
> 
> I'm currently experimenting with NanoBSD and want to integrate ZFS.
> Unfortunatly ZFS maintains the zpool.cache in /boot/zfs, but the filesystem
> is mounted read-only and this file cannot be written or changed.
> Would it be possible to add a tunable or sysctl to ZFS, which allows
> to specify the location of the zpool.cache file?
> I could, for example, tell ZFS, it should maintain the file in /etc/zfs
> (which is writeable in NanoBSD). Surly I have to safe the zpool.cache file to
> a safe location during shutdown, but this is out of ZFS's scope and can be
> archived using customized shutdown scripts in NanoBSD.

Creating a symlink /boot/zfs/zpool.cache -> /etc/zfs/zpool.cache doesn't
help?

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Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
pjd at FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
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