On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Andriy Gapon <a...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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
Much appreciated! I have verified that my system is not affected. One question, do I have to rewrite the zfs gpt boot loader (/boot/gptzfsboot) onto the freebsd-boot partition to make use of this change? -Kimmo _______________________________________________ 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"
