I have MFCed the following change, so please double-check if you might be affected. Preferably before upgrading :-)
on 28/11/2012 20:35 Andriy Gapon said the following: > > Recently some changes were made to how a root pool is opened for root > filesystem > mounting. Previously the root pool had to be present in zpool.cache. Now it > is > automatically discovered by probing available GEOM providers. > The new scheme is believed to be more flexible. For example, it allows to > prepare > a new root pool at one system, then export it and then boot from it on a new > system without doing any extra/magical steps with zpool.cache. It could also > be > convenient after zpool split and in some other situations. > > The change was introduced via multiple commits, the latest relevant revision > in > head is r243502. The changes are partially MFC-ed, the remaining parts are > scheduled to be MFC-ed soon. > > I have received a report that the change caused a problem with booting on at > least > one system. The problem has been identified as an issue in local environment > and > has been fixed. Please read on to see if you might be affected when you > upgrade, > so that you can avoid any unnecessary surprises. > > You might be affected if you ever had a pool named the same as your current > root > pool. And you still have any disks connected to your system that belonged to > that > pool (in whole or via some partitions). And that pool was never properly > destroyed using zpool destroy, but merely abandoned (its disks > re-purposed/re-partitioned/reused). > > If all of the above are true, then I recommend that you run 'zdb -l <disk>' > for > all suspect disks and their partitions (or just all disks and partitions). If > this command reports at least one valid ZFS label for a disk or a partition > that > do not belong to any current pool, then the problem may affect you. > > The best course is to remove the offending labels. > > If you are affected, please follow up to this email. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
