On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:45:37AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > On 26.04.2011 11:34, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:18:06AM +0300, Alexander Motin wrote: > >>What do you think about this: > >>http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?4DB54BA9.5050901 > >>? I've found that zpool utility don't likes symbolic links, but > >>except this and together with fixing hardcoding problem IMHO it > >>looks not bad. > > > >It does look good, indeed. > > > >What's the problem with zpool? > > make_dev_alias() creates symlink to the original device. After that, > attempt to do `zpool create test /dev/ad12 /dev/ad13` fails. May be > because it doesn't resolve symlink and can't find geom with name > ad12.
IIRC zpool go straight to GEOM providers and doesn't even look into /dev/. Feel free to ignore this issue. Actually I think it is even better as people will notice that they should not use legacy names. > >It should operate on GEOM providers only. > > OK. If `zpool create` is the only possible problem there, then I > think we can live with it. I agree. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheelsystems.com FreeBSD committer http://www.FreeBSD.org Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! http://yomoli.com
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