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Re: CVS commit: src/etc/rc.d



On Oct 6, 2009, at 1:22 AM, Adam Hamsik wrote:

> Hi,
> On Oct,Tuesday 6 2009, at 9:03 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Adam Hamsik wrote:
>>> Modified Files:
>>>     src/etc/rc.d: mountall
>>> 
>>> Log Message:
>>> Add support for mounting zfs filesystems to mountall script. ZFS 
>>> configuration
>>> is stored in /etc/zpool.cache and it is automatically loaded to kernel from
>>> filesystem. Filesystems are then configured accordingly to their properties
>>> loaded from cache file.
>> 
>> Is /etc/zpool.cache a human-edited configuration file (in which
>> case, why the ".cache" name?), or is it a machine-readable database (in
>> which case, why is it in /etc?), or is it something else?
> 
> It is a binary file. Something like binary plist. Do you have any better 
> place for it ? I think that we should keep it in etc until we start work on a 
> zfs on root support then we will need to move it some where else anyway.

It belongs in /var/db ... but I'd like to ask why you need it at all?

> 
> Regards
> 
> Adam.

-- thorpej



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