Re: ZFS vs. wedges

[Brett Lymn <blymn%internode.on.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:39:55AM -0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
> 
> That is all what works today. The import command scans the disks
> for ZFS data and creates a pool from it, but the resulting device
> paths (e.g. /dev/dk4) are stored in /etc/zfs/zfs.cache and then
> get reused.
> 

I have only used zfs on solaris and, to me, this sounds wrong.  To my way of
thinking the zfs.cache should simply be a source of hints as to where a zfs was seen
last, look there first and if it is not found the do a possibly expensive scan to
find it.

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